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Little Bookshop of Murder

A Beach Reads Mystery

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Little Bookshop of Murder

By: Maggie Blackburn
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
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Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper's pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack.

Returning to Brigid's Island, North Carolina, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell her mom's embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore, Beach Reads, and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: Sell the bookstore or die.

Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid's Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? The police insist there's not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing, with the help of Hildy's beloved book club.

But there are more suspects on Brigid's Island than are dreamt of in the Bard's darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can't find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy's worth of corpses - including her own.

©2020 Maggie Blackburn (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC Amateur Sleuths Cosy Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Heartfelt
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A book that is quirky in nature. You do get drawn into the characters and community. There are some unexplained parts like her ex and what happened to him. Mystery was easily solved so that was a little disappointing but to be honest, sometimes it’s the journey of the characters and not yours. Narrator has a strange habit of finishing the “she said” at the end of sentences with a small gap which means when the characters are all women you can easily get confused.

Enjoyably quirky

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I thought the progressive themes intertwined with an interesting and lighthearted plot were an absolutely lovely delight and a nice surprise

Lighthearted but a brilliant read

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great cosy mystery especially for a free book. really enjoyed the characters and story altho I did guess the killer early on. would recommend as a nice easy listening book.

nice and easy listening

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Did not find any of the characters believable. The plot was quite weak and there wasn't enough drama at the end.

disappointing.

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I know it sounds strange but the narrator brought these characters to life. Although the perp was not a surprise, it was a lovely story

Lovely story where murder creates family

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