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"Bookish" Mysteries (An Ode to Books) October 2022
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Murder in the Locked Library
by Ellery Adams
When a collection of unusual bones and the remains of a very old book are unearthed during Storyton Hall’s renovations, resulting in an unexpected historical mystery and murder, manager Jane Steward must uncover a killer before someone else meets an unhappy ending. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Poisoned Pages
by Lorna Barrett
After hosting a dinner party, a mystery-bookstore owner and amateur sleuth tries to determine whether her cooking or foul play killed one of the guests. By the New York Times best-selling author of A Just Clause
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Murder By the Bookend
by Laura Gail Black
When the local library's Director of Antique Books is found dead with his head bashed in by vintage glass bookends, antiquarian bookseller Jenna Quinn launches her own investigation before the culprit writes another killer ending.
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A Novel Way to Die
by Ali Brandon
Inheriting her great-aunt Dee's Brooklyn bookstore along with an oversized black cat named Hamlet, Darla Pettistone, while settling into her new life, investigates the suspicious death of one of her regular customers since Hamlet may have been the only witness to what could be murder.
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Buried in the Stacks
by Allison Brook
Volunteering the Haunted Library as a meeting place for the community’s homeless people, Carrie visits a friend in the hospital, only to discover the identity of library ghost Aunt Evelyn’s killer.
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Wed, Read & Dead
by V. M. Burns
While penning her next historical mystery set in England between the wars, bookstore owner Samantha Washington must catch the killer of an obnoxious wedding planner before her mother and her groom-to-be say “I do.”
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A Story to Kill
by Lynn Cahoon
When a best-selling author pens his last word during her writers' retreat, former English professor Cat Latimer teams up with her uncle, the local police chief, to close the book on a clever killer who seems determined to shut down her new bed-and-breakfast. By a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author.
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Buried in Books
by Kate Carlisle
Book restoration expert Brooklyn finds her surprise bridal shower complicated by the arrival of her two feuding former besties, the discovery of a rare book forgery and an untimely murder. By the best-selling author of the Fixer-Upper Mysteries.
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The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller
by Cleo Coyle
Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure didn't believe in ghosts, until she was haunted by the hard-boiled spirit of 1940s private investigator Jack Shepard. Now Jack is back on the job, and Pen is eternally grateful...
After an elegant new customer has a breakdown in her shop, Penelope suspects there is something bogus behind the biggest bestseller of the year. This popular potboiler is so hot that folks in her tiny Rhode Island town are dying to read it--literally. Now, with the help of her gumshoe ghost, Pen must solve the real-life cold case behind the bogus bestseller before the killer closes the book on her.
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Elementary, She Read
by Vicki Delany
When Gemma Doyleowner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, as well as Moriarty the catfinds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room), set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.
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Crimes and Covers
by Amanda Flower
At her wedding reception, Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly recognizes a dead body in the Niagara River as a recent customer with a rare copy of Walden, in the fifth novel of the series following Verse and Vengeance.
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A Death Long Overdue
by Eva Gates
Organizing a library artifact exhibit for her college classs 40th reunion, Lucy and her friends discover the body of an unpopular director and are challenged to identify a killer among a long list of suspects.
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A Deadly Edition
by Victoria Gilbert
Investigating an art dealer’s murder to help clear a friend’s name while juggling the demands of her approaching nuptials, librarian Amy Webber is thwarted by her aunt Lydia’s boyfriend, who believes the chief suspect is guilty.
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Twelve Angry Librarians
by Miranda James
Attending the Southern ALA annual meeting only to be confronted by an old nemesis from library school, interim library director Charlie Harris is wrongly implicated in his rival's murder and must discover which of their fellow librarians is the true killer in order to clear his own name. By the New York Times best-selling author of No Cats Allowed.
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Murder at the Book Group
by Maggie King
When her friend and fellow murder mystery book group member Carlene drops dead after drinking cyanide-spiked tea, Hazel Rose must read between the lines to catch a killer who knew about the past that Carlene took great pains to hide.
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Killer Librarian
by Mary Lou Kirwin
While on a literary tour in London that pays homage to mysteries, librarian Karen Nash is faced with a real-life mystery when another guest at the B&B where she is staying is murdered and her ex and his new girlfriend turn up.
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Murder Off the Page
by Con Lehane
Reluctantly investigating a murder that is complicated by his friend’s implication in another death, librarian sleuth Raymond Ambler uncovers the second victim’s illicit double life and a wealth of potential suspects. By the author of Murder in the Manuscript Room.
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Hitting the Books
by Jenn McKinlay
Dragged into a hit-and-run investigation after a stack of library materials is found at the scene, library director Lindsey Norris must piece together the clues to crack the case—especially once someone is murdered. By the New York Times best-selling author of Death in the Stacks.
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Chapter and Curse
by Elizabeth Penney
Arriving in Cambridge, England to help run the family bookshop, librarian Molly Kimball must sift through secrets past and present to untangle a web of blackmail, deceit and murder as she tries to keep the struggling shop afloat after a literary event ends in murder.
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The Cracked Spine
by Paige Shelton
Delaney Nichols uproots herself from her quiet Kansas town and takes a job at The Cracked Spine in Edinburgh, only to put on her investigating cap when someone in her new life ends up dead. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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The Bodies in the Library
by Marty Wingate
The new curator of an exclusive first-edition library in Bath encounters resistance in her efforts to modernize, before the murder of a fan-fiction writer threatens everything she has worked to achieve. By the author of the Potting Shed series.
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