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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed during Movie Town Theater's first ever Film Noir Festival, Penelope Thornton-McClure turns to P.I. Jack Shepard, a hard-boiled ghost who remembers the victim's dark past, for help in solving the mystery.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a stranger leaves a box of books at Mary Fisher's shop, each containing a letter written by Mary's mother to a man named Jacob, Mary sets out to discover the truth about this youthful relationship.
One night? Mary is working late at the bookshop when a box of books is left at her door. All of them have beautiful covers by the same artist? and inside each book is an old letter addressed to man named Jacob. To Mary?s shock? the letters were written...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After raising her family in Boston, recently widowed Mary Fisher moves back to Cape Cod to be near her sister Betty and to do something she always dreamed of: open a bookstore called Mary's Mystery Bookshop. Soon, Mary discovers that years of reading mystery novels have paid off in a big way! In each novel, Mary puts her sleuthing skills to work to uncover some of Ivy bay's most unexpected and fascinating mysteries"--Publisher.
When Mary and her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lately, Hamlet hasn't been chasing customers or being his obnoxious self, something Darla surprisingly misses. Concerned, she hires a cat whisperer to probe Hamlet's feline psyche and then decides to get out of her own funk by taking up karate to learn how to defend herself in case the need arises again. But when Darla finds her sensei dead at the dojo, it seems that even a master can be felled by foul play. Darla decides to investigate the matter...
7) Plot boiler
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Series
Black cat bookshop mystery volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
All the local shop owners are thrilled when Darla Pettistone throws a block party, except for the proprietor of Perky's Coffee Shop who thinks Darla is trying to steal his customers. When Hamlet finds his wife dead, Darla and her cat investigate.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime. Edwin has promised that she'll be working with "a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes," and Delaney...
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Series
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English
Description
Violet Waverly rushes home to her ailing grandmother to find it was all a ploy to get her closer to home. Violet begins working in Charming Books, her grandma's magical bookshop. Soon a dead man is discovered clutching a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems and Violet is caught up in the mystery.
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Series
Highland bookshop mystery volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel"--
11) Prose and cons
Author
Series
Magical bookshop mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
October in Cascade Springs, New York means tourists are pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group, the Red Inkers, to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe in the shop's back garden to entertain the revelers. Everyone eagerly agrees. Yet their enthusiasm is soon extinguished when Violet discovers one of the writers dead during the event....
12) Twice told tail
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As Thanksgiving approaches, Darla Pettistone is preparing for the busiest shopping season of the year. They've recently launched their online store, where one anonymous bidder is offering a suspiciously high price for an antique book - and Darla doesn't need Hamlet's special senses to know that something isn't quite right. However, there's no time to think about that after Darla's roped into helping bridezilla Connie Capello get ready for her big...
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Series
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the second Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery, Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson's book signing event with Renalta Van Markoff ends in a Sherlockian controversy and death.
The Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Baker Street and adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room will be hosting a book signing with the illustrious Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series. But during the author Q&A session, dedicated Sherlockian...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Gemma Doyle, owner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne, set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Delaney Nichols has settled so comfortably into her new life in Edinburgh that she truly feels it's become more home than her once beloved Kansas. Her job at the Cracked Spine, a bookshop that specializes in rare manuscripts as well as other sundry valuable historical objects, is everything she had dreamed, with her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, entrusting her more and more with bigger jobs. Her latest task includes a trip to Castle Doune, a castle...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, bookshop owner Samantha Washington investigates with the help of her feisty grandmother and an enthusiastic ensemble of colorful retirees.
Samantha Washington is opening a mystery bookstore in North Harbor, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan. She's also penning a cozy mystery set in England. When a shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, the police suspect Samantha. Aided by her feisty...
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Series
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles put on by the West London Theater Festival. When Sir Nigel, some of the cast, and the director visit the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop at 222 Baker Street, owner Gemma Doyle realizes that Sir Nigel is not at all suited to the role. He is long past his prime and an old drunk to boot. The cast, in particular the much younger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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. First one customer turns up dead, followed by another mysterious fatality connected to the book, which Pen discovers is more than just fiction. Now, with the help of her gumshoe ghost, Pen must solve...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town... When her new friends, also students at the medical school, come to the shop to sell a collection of antique medical books, Delaney knows she's stumbled across a rare and important find indeed. Her boss, Edwin MacAlister, agrees to buy the multivolume set, perhaps even to keep for his own collection....
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gemma and Jayne donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned-out museum, but the murder of museum board chair Kathy Lamb places a fellow shopkeeper under suspicion, and Gemma becomes entangled in the investigation.