The Bookseller's Daughter: Grand Prize Winner, 2019 New York Book Festival

by Steven E Burt

Grand Prize Winner, 2019 New York Book Festival Awards Best Adult Fiction, 2019 New York Book Festival Awards gold medal Teen Fiction, 2019 Mom's Choice Awards Best Young Adult Book, 2020 New England Book Festival Awards From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Steve Burt, a Maine thriller for adults and teens Could Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine? Working at Annie's Book Stop, Keegan has read plenty of mysteries. But she's never been part of one. Until now. It starts when someone—or some THING—burglarizes a different local bookstore, Toil & Trouble, stealing an obscure book of little interest except possibly to a collector. It gets stranger when someone appearing to be a hunchbacked nun comes to Annie's Book Stop to order a reprint of the same book—and two books on local graveyards! But before they can be picked up, a robed and hooded figure breaks into Annie's after hours and rifles through the special-orders shelf. Is there more to this book than meets the eye? More questions come up, but the most important one Can Keegan survive long enough to unravel the big secrets of her small town?

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2019

Reviews

[Vintagebooklvr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Keegan works at Annie's Book Stop in Wells, Maine, and is very surprised when another local bookshop is burglarized and then someone dressed as a hunchbacked nun comes to her aunt's store to order a reprint of the same book. Then someone breaks into her store and rifles through the special-orders shelf. What is going on? It will take a look into the history of the Civil War, an open-mind and the help of her best friend and aunt to figure out this mystery and to survive.

An entertaining and well-written story with an unusual take on a supernatural creature. I enjoyed it. Plus, there are a number of references to local sites in Wells, Maine and if anyone knows the area it is fun to see them.

[Tonja, · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars