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Bibliophile Mystery #5
One Book in the Grave
There may be grave consequences for bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright as she attempts to solve two murders tied to one book…
Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairytale come true—until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend of hers. Three years ago, Max Adams, a renowned, brawny papermaker, fell in love with a stunning beauty, Emily, and gave her the copy of Beauty and the Beast as a symbol of their love. Soon afterward, he died in a car crash, and Brooklyn has always suspected his possessive ex-girlfriend and her jealous beau.
Now she decides to find out who sold the book and return it to its rightful owner—Emily. She believes a rare book dealer can assist her, but when she arrives at his shop, she finds him murdered. Is it possible the same couple who may have killed Daniel is now after his edition of Beauty and the Beast? With the help of her handsome boyfriend, Derek Stone, Brooklyn must unravel the murder plot--before she ends up in a plot herself…
Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairytale come true—until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend of hers. Three years ago, Max Adams, a renowned, brawny papermaker, fell in love with a stunning beauty, Emily, and gave her the copy of Beauty and the Beast as a symbol of their love. Soon afterward, he died in a car crash, and Brooklyn has always suspected his possessive ex-girlfriend and her jealous beau.
Now she decides to find out who sold the book and return it to its rightful owner—Emily. She believes a rare book dealer can assist her, but when she arrives at his shop, she finds him murdered. Is it possible the same couple who may have killed Daniel is now after his edition of Beauty and the Beast? With the help of her handsome boyfriend, Derek Stone, Brooklyn must unravel the murder plot--before she ends up in a plot herself…
301 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 7, 2012
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Kate Carlisle
97 books2,817 followersGolden Heart and Daphne du Maurier Award winning author Kate Carlisle spent over twenty years working in television production as an Associate Director for game and variety shows, including The Midnight Special, Solid Gold and The Gong Show. She traveled the world as a Dating Game chaperone and performed strange acts of silliness on The Gong Show. She also studied acting and singing, toiled in vineyards, collected books, joined a commune, sold fried chicken, modeled spring fashions and worked for a cruise ship line, but it was the year she spent in law school that finally drove her to begin writing fiction. It seemed the safest way to kill off her professors. Those professors are breathing easier now that Kate spends most of her time writing near the beach in Southern California where she lives with her perfect husband.
A lifelong love of old books and an appreciation of the art of bookbinding led Kate to create the Bibliophile Mysteries, featuring rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright, whose bookbinding and restoration skills invariably uncover old secrets, treachery and murder. Kate is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Romance Writers of America. She loves to drink good wine and watch other people cook.
Despite the appearance of overnight success, Kate's dream of publication took many, many years to fulfill.
A lifelong love of old books and an appreciation of the art of bookbinding led Kate to create the Bibliophile Mysteries, featuring rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright, whose bookbinding and restoration skills invariably uncover old secrets, treachery and murder. Kate is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Romance Writers of America. She loves to drink good wine and watch other people cook.
Despite the appearance of overnight success, Kate's dream of publication took many, many years to fulfill.
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November 11, 2021
One Book in the Grave is the 5th Bibliophile Mystery written by Kate Carlisle. To begin with, I enjoyed this book. But, when I compared it to her other books, I felt it was missing something, and it drew on characters that were uninvolved and mostly all new. I missed the charm of the sub-character plots and the true connections to people we've come to love. So... I went w/ 3.5 stars but rounded down to 3.
I still plan to read all the rest of the books. I just didn't connect with it as much as I have all her other books. Brooklyn's parents were present. So was Gabriel, even a bit of Minka. But honestly, it felt like I was reading a watered down version of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum. Brooklyn has Gabriel and Derek. Stephanie has Ranger and Joe. Stephanie has her enemy, Joyce. Brooklyn has Minka. There are families, and those are mostly different... but this went too far away from a cozy too. All that said, I really did enjoy it. I just felt like it wasn't as original as they normally are. Sometimes there's a miss. I am confident it will get better in the next round.
I still plan to read all the rest of the books. I just didn't connect with it as much as I have all her other books. Brooklyn's parents were present. So was Gabriel, even a bit of Minka. But honestly, it felt like I was reading a watered down version of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum. Brooklyn has Gabriel and Derek. Stephanie has Ranger and Joe. Stephanie has her enemy, Joyce. Brooklyn has Minka. There are families, and those are mostly different... but this went too far away from a cozy too. All that said, I really did enjoy it. I just felt like it wasn't as original as they normally are. Sometimes there's a miss. I am confident it will get better in the next round.
February 28, 2019
I love Kate Carlisle’s characters, well filled-out with family members. I also love the unique traits of Brooklyn’s and Derek’s jobs. However too many aspects of this novel were handled cavalierly; prioritizing humour to the detriment of common sense and astronomical repetition no editor should allow. In “One Book In The Grave”, 2012, Brooklyn receives a bookbinding job from Ian; library museum curator. It is nice to see her security agent boyfriend become a part of the Wainwright family. Covert operator friend, Gabriel, now resides in Sonoma county, California.
Even Brooklyn’s Dad has assisted their spiritual leader, Robert, with discreet projects. One is revealed, when Brooklyn discovers a murder connected with a commune friend. An unbalanced girl had harassed him, after he became engaged and it was thought that a sociopathic professor was after him, out of jealousy. I liked the realism of having anxiety about finding numerous bodies. Kate ruined that by toying with the expression, “dead” body about 80 times! You only use the word “body” for something deceased. I cannot stand anyone adding the word “dead”, for flair or lack of grammatical proficiency.
I loved the action and camaraderie but Kate seemed more intent on caricatures of humour than on plotting this mystery. Elaborately inducing Brooklyn to find a note in a book, for sale publically, was preposterous. There was no logic in contacting Brooklyn anonymously and none in murdering a store-owner. The writer identifies themselves in their note! The murder motive could not have been to cover their tracks! Plots have to make sense. Squeezing in “Beauty And The Beast” in such a convoluted way did not work. “Cozy mysteries” particularly are too light, to bear overindulgence in comedy. They need as much action as possible. Those were the best, most engrossing parts of this novel.
Even Brooklyn’s Dad has assisted their spiritual leader, Robert, with discreet projects. One is revealed, when Brooklyn discovers a murder connected with a commune friend. An unbalanced girl had harassed him, after he became engaged and it was thought that a sociopathic professor was after him, out of jealousy. I liked the realism of having anxiety about finding numerous bodies. Kate ruined that by toying with the expression, “dead” body about 80 times! You only use the word “body” for something deceased. I cannot stand anyone adding the word “dead”, for flair or lack of grammatical proficiency.
I loved the action and camaraderie but Kate seemed more intent on caricatures of humour than on plotting this mystery. Elaborately inducing Brooklyn to find a note in a book, for sale publically, was preposterous. There was no logic in contacting Brooklyn anonymously and none in murdering a store-owner. The writer identifies themselves in their note! The murder motive could not have been to cover their tracks! Plots have to make sense. Squeezing in “Beauty And The Beast” in such a convoluted way did not work. “Cozy mysteries” particularly are too light, to bear overindulgence in comedy. They need as much action as possible. Those were the best, most engrossing parts of this novel.
February 23, 2022
Love, love, love this series! The characters are great, the writing is funny and the mystery is entertaining. I enjoy reading about the bookbinding even though I don’t totally get it, I really need to take one of Brooklyn’s classes in person. This mystery definitely kept me on my toes trying to keep track of what was going on. Can’t wait to read the next one.
January 8, 2022
3.5 Stars
Good addition to the series. Brooklyn's ways are growing on me more. The community her family is in is still a little different for me but it's nice to read about different lifestyles. The author kept you guessing who the killer would be and the ending wasn't a letdown. Onto the next one!
Good addition to the series. Brooklyn's ways are growing on me more. The community her family is in is still a little different for me but it's nice to read about different lifestyles. The author kept you guessing who the killer would be and the ending wasn't a letdown. Onto the next one!
July 10, 2020
I have really been enjoying this series. Brooklyn has a lot of pluck. She is resigned to the fact that one of her purposes in life might be to get justice for someone who was murdered. This time it leads her to the discovery that a friend she thought had died is alive and hiding. I love that this story has as much time in Dharma as San Francisco. Brooklyn's mom is so entertaining. The author did a really good job with the mystery. Throughout the entire book I bought into the clues leading to the killer being a certain paty or parties. The twist at the end got me. I did not expect the outcome.
On to the next book.
On to the next book.
March 14, 2018
It was okay, but I was expecting more of the plot to be about books and bookbinding. I will probably try another one; maybe it will be more satisfying.
November 16, 2015
In One Book in the Grave, Brooklyn is hired to restore a beautiful copy of Beauty and the Beast. However, she is horrified to find that the book belonged to a late friend's wife. When she pursues the original seller to discover who stole the book, she finds him dead on the floor. Mysteries are revealed, there is more kookiness from Brooklyn's family, and the dashing Derek eventually saves the day.
I believe that I might have been too charitable with my reviews of the previous books. This one was an absolute slog, and I realized that it was not this individual book so much as the general writing and premise began to wear thin. I already expressed my dislike of Derek, the main romance interest, to begin with, and more novels featuring him have not cooled that dislike in any way. Kate Carlisle seems more interested in writing a romance that happens to have dead bodies than a mystery that happens to have a love interest. There's something horribly Sex and the City-meets-Bridget Jones about the dialogue and internal monologue of Brooklyn as she moons over how gosh-darn dreamy Derek is. She sounds more like a thirteen-year-old swooning over a boy band than a mature woman, frankly, and that internal monologue takes her down long, meandering pages that add nothing whatsoever to the plot. At one point, the reader is treated to a long passage that - well, reads like this:
"So why rock the boat when it looked like smooth sailing ahead?
I mentally rolled my eyes. Rock the boat? Smooth sailing? So many cliches, so little time. It was never a good thing to hear myself thinking in cliches.
I had a great aunt, Aunt Jessica, my dad's father's sister, who spoke only in cliches and the occasional mixed metaphor. Instead of ever giving advice or admonishing, Aunt Jessica would nod gravely and say, 'Sleeping dogs.' Or she would wink at one of us and murmur, 'Bird in the hand.'
So from an early age, my siblings and I recognized the true wisdom of her words. We would outdo one another trying to come up with some ridiculous comment to describe a situation. Finally, my father outlawed all cliches and silly metaphors. He decreed that we were allowed to think only original thoughts. It was silent at the dinner table for a few nights until he relented. But we learned our lesson, and from then on we did try to avoid cliches like the plague. Ha!
My point was that wen I caught myself thinking in metaphors, mixed or otherwise, I knew I was either extremely tired or in serious danger of losing my heart. Both of these circumstances could cause brain cells to diminish. It was a well-known fact" (119).
It actually goes on a bit longer, but I've cut it short. This entire monologue, besides not being written particularly well, is completely useless to character development, plot development, or maturity development. Besides which, I find it hard to take seriously a woman over the age of 10 who unironically says, "Good grief" as an exclamation.
The plot was particularly uninspired in this one and didn't so much strain believability as it did take a mallet and shatter it.
I am also losing my patience with the fact that Brooklyn apparently relishes being the shrinking violet. She even specifically comments that she knows it's not feminist, but tee-hee, Derek is just soooo dreamy!
Brooklyn's internal dialogue also leads to another problem I have, which is that the quirkiness of the family and characters is so contrived that it feels horribly forced, like people laughing loudly at a not-funny joke to cover the awkwardness. I won't bother to quote the entire passage again, but she relates a memory from her childhood where her mother explained what "assume the position" meant, that cops wanted to search you. Her dad of course made the hilarious and original joke that it actually meant to bend over and kiss your own ass goodbye. Their parents would snap, "Assume the position!" at their kids periodically and laugh hysterically when they did. As Brooklyn sums this up, "My parents were a couple of cards. No wonder we didn't do drugs; things were zany enough around our house without the added buzz" (121). Yup. That sure is ~zany!~
It also points to another main problem, which is that there are no problems. There's a murder, which certainly complicates things, but her family are all happy bunnies who love each other and never fight because they're just so hippie-dippie loving, and her relationship with Derek is never jeopardized, because he just loves her so much and the only problems she can make are completely random insecurities and ramblings. Even the friends - Vinnie, Suzie, and the new gay couple who moved in - just love Brooklyn so much! She's so funny! And awesome! And isn't it just so funny how quirky she is?
Truthfully, this is the last book of the series I'm going to read. The same jokes, the same lack of conflict or development, and the sheer unbelievability and dearth of nuance just make this series a dull, uninspiring read.
I believe that I might have been too charitable with my reviews of the previous books. This one was an absolute slog, and I realized that it was not this individual book so much as the general writing and premise began to wear thin. I already expressed my dislike of Derek, the main romance interest, to begin with, and more novels featuring him have not cooled that dislike in any way. Kate Carlisle seems more interested in writing a romance that happens to have dead bodies than a mystery that happens to have a love interest. There's something horribly Sex and the City-meets-Bridget Jones about the dialogue and internal monologue of Brooklyn as she moons over how gosh-darn dreamy Derek is. She sounds more like a thirteen-year-old swooning over a boy band than a mature woman, frankly, and that internal monologue takes her down long, meandering pages that add nothing whatsoever to the plot. At one point, the reader is treated to a long passage that - well, reads like this:
"So why rock the boat when it looked like smooth sailing ahead?
I mentally rolled my eyes. Rock the boat? Smooth sailing? So many cliches, so little time. It was never a good thing to hear myself thinking in cliches.
I had a great aunt, Aunt Jessica, my dad's father's sister, who spoke only in cliches and the occasional mixed metaphor. Instead of ever giving advice or admonishing, Aunt Jessica would nod gravely and say, 'Sleeping dogs.' Or she would wink at one of us and murmur, 'Bird in the hand.'
So from an early age, my siblings and I recognized the true wisdom of her words. We would outdo one another trying to come up with some ridiculous comment to describe a situation. Finally, my father outlawed all cliches and silly metaphors. He decreed that we were allowed to think only original thoughts. It was silent at the dinner table for a few nights until he relented. But we learned our lesson, and from then on we did try to avoid cliches like the plague. Ha!
My point was that wen I caught myself thinking in metaphors, mixed or otherwise, I knew I was either extremely tired or in serious danger of losing my heart. Both of these circumstances could cause brain cells to diminish. It was a well-known fact" (119).
It actually goes on a bit longer, but I've cut it short. This entire monologue, besides not being written particularly well, is completely useless to character development, plot development, or maturity development. Besides which, I find it hard to take seriously a woman over the age of 10 who unironically says, "Good grief" as an exclamation.
The plot was particularly uninspired in this one and didn't so much strain believability as it did take a mallet and shatter it.
I am also losing my patience with the fact that Brooklyn apparently relishes being the shrinking violet. She even specifically comments that she knows it's not feminist, but tee-hee, Derek is just soooo dreamy!
Brooklyn's internal dialogue also leads to another problem I have, which is that the quirkiness of the family and characters is so contrived that it feels horribly forced, like people laughing loudly at a not-funny joke to cover the awkwardness. I won't bother to quote the entire passage again, but she relates a memory from her childhood where her mother explained what "assume the position" meant, that cops wanted to search you. Her dad of course made the hilarious and original joke that it actually meant to bend over and kiss your own ass goodbye. Their parents would snap, "Assume the position!" at their kids periodically and laugh hysterically when they did. As Brooklyn sums this up, "My parents were a couple of cards. No wonder we didn't do drugs; things were zany enough around our house without the added buzz" (121). Yup. That sure is ~zany!~
It also points to another main problem, which is that there are no problems. There's a murder, which certainly complicates things, but her family are all happy bunnies who love each other and never fight because they're just so hippie-dippie loving, and her relationship with Derek is never jeopardized, because he just loves her so much and the only problems she can make are completely random insecurities and ramblings. Even the friends - Vinnie, Suzie, and the new gay couple who moved in - just love Brooklyn so much! She's so funny! And awesome! And isn't it just so funny how quirky she is?
Truthfully, this is the last book of the series I'm going to read. The same jokes, the same lack of conflict or development, and the sheer unbelievability and dearth of nuance just make this series a dull, uninspiring read.
February 27, 2021
Book restorer Brooklyn Wainwright is stunned when the book the library asks her to restore was actually an engagement gift from her friend Max to his fiancee Emily, which had been stolen after Max's death. When the bookstore owner who sold the book is killed, Brooklyn and friends are sent down a rabbit hole of obsession and destruction.
I really love the Bibliophile Mysteries. Brooklyn is fun, smart, and brave. Her ex-government agent boyfriend is tough and protective, and all of their wacky friends are entertaining. This book also features Brooklyn's eccentric family, whose hippie ways Brooklyn doesn't always agree with. The plot itself had plenty of twists and turns and was compelling in its own right. This is a really great mystery novel.
I really love the Bibliophile Mysteries. Brooklyn is fun, smart, and brave. Her ex-government agent boyfriend is tough and protective, and all of their wacky friends are entertaining. This book also features Brooklyn's eccentric family, whose hippie ways Brooklyn doesn't always agree with. The plot itself had plenty of twists and turns and was compelling in its own right. This is a really great mystery novel.
December 26, 2015
The genre of cozy mysteries is not one I spend a lot of time in. I actually avoid that genre. I've read a few and have felt miserable each time. It was like going to the dentist for me. However, I actually liked this one....well some of it. I enjoyed the characters. They were fun and quirky. I also enjoyed the complexity of the story line. If I have to read more to fill a challenge requirement, I think I will try and stick to this author. This was a fun read.
June 29, 2018
Questa serie è sempre meglio!
In questo libro, per quanto riguarda il/i colpevole/i, niente è quanto sembra, cosa che mi ha fatto dubitare della soluzione fino quasi alla fine. Per dirla tutta, ci sono arrivata poche pagine prima della protagonista.
In questo libro, per quanto riguarda il/i colpevole/i, niente è quanto sembra, cosa che mi ha fatto dubitare della soluzione fino quasi alla fine. Per dirla tutta, ci sono arrivata poche pagine prima della protagonista.
August 8, 2020
I really enjoyed this book. It definitely kept me on my toes and the ending was a great surprise. As someone who loves books, I can definitely relate to the main character. The author made the characters have so much realistic characteristics so that they feel like real people. I’m not the biggest fan of mysteries but this was a pretty awesome one. There was romance, mystery, drama, and so much more. This book definitely delivers!
March 8, 2012
One Book in the Grave is the latest addition to the Brooklyn Wainwright Bibliophile mysteries. I've been a big fan of the series and of the author, Kate Carlisle, since I read the first one. The previous books were a madcap frolic through Brooklyn's life replete with dead bodies, mysterious men, and Brooklyn's ability to infallibly be at the wrong place at the wrong time. In ONE BOOK IN THE GRAVE, Brooklyn seems more...domesticated. She's almost normal in fact. Yes, there are still dead bodies and a mystery to be solved but the pace seemed almost languorous compared to earlier books in the series. Even so, this was a fun read and I still have both an e-copy for reading and a print copy for the keeper shelf. As usual, I suspected the identity of the culprit but waffled toward the end, thinking my gut instincts might be off. In the end, I was right but that's okay. It's a rare mystery or suspense book where I haven't figured out the perpetrator. That doesn't stop my enjoying the read. If you are looking for a quiet visit with old friends to hide from a hectic world, and one with some mystery thrown in, this book is worth time.
March 29, 2012
I knew I should not have checked this out the library...remember reading another in the series...just plain silly in places... like Guru Bob; Brooklyn's hippie mother concocting her own "cleansing Bhakti yoga shala bliss", that is declared "delicious" by Yoganina Robayana....it consists of chanting "Shri Rama Llama Jala Walla Ram Ram" aproximately 50 times....kind of sounds like a take-off of 'Shama lama bing bang' (the old rock song). The rest of the book is about a man who supposedly dies 3 years before, leaving his new wife, mother and friends...because he was afraid for them..and for himself, of a professor and an ex-girlfriend....come on now!!! The whole book should be put in a grave.
March 10, 2012
If you really enjoy cozy mysteries and consider yourself a bibliophile, I can't recommend this series enough! Quirky, interesting characters that make you smile, fantastic dialogue, picturesque settings, and just enough information about book restoration to make me want to become a book restorer define this series as a whole. The mystery plot in this, the 5th book is excellent; it feels straightforward but isn't. Lots of twists and turns, red herrings, a few surprises and a great ending. A truly enjoyable book I did not want to end.
August 11, 2016
This is a good, solid series with a great protagonist and a good plot. Sometimes later books in a series are not as good as the earlier ones, but this series is different, and each book has been just as good as the last.
May 19, 2020
3.5 stars
okay dokey, well i thought i'd guessed who did it but i was incorrect.
i didn't figure it out until towards the end. kudos to the writer for the brilliant diversions of suspects.
another good one in the series.
okay dokey, well i thought i'd guessed who did it but i was incorrect.
i didn't figure it out until towards the end. kudos to the writer for the brilliant diversions of suspects.
another good one in the series.
December 25, 2020
This time Brooklyn gets to solve two murders, and reunite with an old friend who she thought died three years earlier. Much to her surprise, people close to her were responsible for hiding Max away for his own safety...it seems someone is still after him and the woman he loves. As usual, a book is involved and is the beginning of Brooklyn's investigation with the case.
March 9, 2020
I found this cozy mystery to be fun. The plot was interesting and the mystery wasn't too easy to solve. I figured out what was going on but literally right before the reveal. There was a lot of twists and turns in the mystery that keep you guessing. Overall, a fun little mystery.
March 20, 2016
Ah the tale of Beauty and the Beast, the relationship of the age old classic, a rare first edition, and how it was gifted by bookbinder, Brooklyn Wainwright to a close male friend and his intended bride, until tragedy struck and both groom and then bride to be seem to have disappeared after a tragic accident, and the rare book along with it. That was a decade ago, and Brooklyn had always been suspicious of an ex girlfriend and her Svengali teacher/boyfriend of having something to do with it.
Suddenly Brooklyn receives a call from a friend Ian who is the head curator at the Covington Library in Pacific Heights to assist him in the restoration of what might turn out to be a rare edition of the book that he received via a Book Dealer. Let me leave this at the beginning of 'follow the yellow brick road, and all the hell that results with this request. Yes, folks, fasten your seat belts as you will be off on a wild carpet ride of old/new and expanding relationships with a few surprise turns on the said road/ride. But enjoy this because you will stick with it until it reaches it's final destination!
Suddenly Brooklyn receives a call from a friend Ian who is the head curator at the Covington Library in Pacific Heights to assist him in the restoration of what might turn out to be a rare edition of the book that he received via a Book Dealer. Let me leave this at the beginning of 'follow the yellow brick road, and all the hell that results with this request. Yes, folks, fasten your seat belts as you will be off on a wild carpet ride of old/new and expanding relationships with a few surprise turns on the said road/ride. But enjoy this because you will stick with it until it reaches it's final destination!
September 11, 2021
Brooklyn is given the chance to restore an old book and she realizes that it had belonged to an old friend who died. The book had been stolen from his girlfriend and Brooklyn tries to find out who stole it. Along the way she finds the old friend is alive and has to figure out why he faked his death.
May 8, 2014
I enjoyed this 5th book in the Bibliophile Mystery. As always the book talk is fascinating and the mystery was interesting if not the most logical.
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November 26, 2025
This book gave us a little more background on Brooklyn and her childhood. We got to see more of her young life and how it helped formed her into the person she is now.
I really enjoyed learning more about her and her family and how all the lives come together when they are needed.
Another great book to snuggle up with!
I really enjoyed learning more about her and her family and how all the lives come together when they are needed.
Another great book to snuggle up with!
September 10, 2019
So my advice is to enjoy these for the light reading they are, because they’re fun and entertaining. If you’re looking for something more refined, intense, or whatever, hold off until you’re in the right mood.
December 24, 2021
While parts of this book were far too ... facile? Sugar-coated? it still kept me reading to find out what life had in store for book restorer Brooklyn Wainwright. I'm not sure what I can write without spoilers so I'll just say that I need to request the next book in the series very soon.
July 6, 2024
This one, as the rest of this series, is still a bit too James Bond for my taste and intense ... but I did really enjoy the story line and the characters. And the building relationships, and the surprises, and twists and turns. Good read.
August 5, 2021
Minka is one of those characters that you can't wait for them to get off the page, hahaha!! Other than that, I quite enjoyed this bibliophile mystery!
July 14, 2022
Tbh this series would be halfway decent if the main character weren't an obnoxious nightmare.
August 19, 2022
I felt it drug on some and I couldn’t really get into it. I do enjoy the characters but felt the plot to this one needed more. Cute series.
February 14, 2024
I enjoyed the discussion of why this nice person keeps stumbling into dead bodies.
March 6, 2020
Started out as a cute cozy mystery but the ending 😳 where did that come from 😝
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