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Murder in the Bookshop

Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet Mysteries, Book 1

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‘A lovely mystery evocative of the period from a talented writer’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay mysteries

Someone’s been read their last rites…

1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne – with a paperknife through her heart – in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming.

The case is anything but textbook. With the discovery of a coded German message, and Hannah’s instinct that Lily-Anne’s husband is keeping secrets, she determines to get to the bottom of it.

She can’t do it alone though. To crack this case, Hannah will need the enlist the help of her outrageous, opinionated, only-occasionally-objectionable Aunt Violet.

They think they’re making progress until one of their chief suspects is found dead. And Hannah realises that she is herself now in the murderer’s sights. Will the final chapter be the ending of a killer… or just a killer ending?

A totally addictive, WW1-set cozy mystery, perfect for fans of Verity Bright, T.E. Kinsey, and Agatha Christie.

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A great new series with some delightful characters.
Couldn't always discern between the
voices of the different characters however.

Entertaining

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Really enjoyed this book, the characters, the plot and the narrator - the one thing that spoilt it was the author commited the worst sin possible in mystery writing; there was no way to work out who the murderer was as the key bits of info were not revealed until the end when the detective caught the killer. The whole point of a mystery is to work out who did it from the clues!!!

Don't bother trying to work out who did it

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