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81) A spirited tail
Author
Series
Mystic Notch cozy mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A bookstore owner finds a dead body in the backyard of a home and the previous home owner's ghost while appraising a library of books at the home. Her cat helps her decipher clues to the mystery.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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. She's recently befriended a few medical school students after they came into the shop to sell some antique medical tomes. But when one of the students' friends is found murdered outside in the alley, Delaney takes it upon herself to help bring the murderer to justice. During her investigation,...
83) A mew to a kill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When the ghost of a murder victim appears in Last Chance Books, middle-aged bookstore owner, Willa Chance, must find the ghost's killer or risk being haunted with its unwanted advice forever"--Page [4] of cover.
84) Gorsky: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On a rainy afternoon in London's old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store's bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing books for a massive personal library, which which will be housed in the magnificent, palatial home Gorsky happens to be building immediately next to Nikola's...
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are back on the case when a body is discovered in a haunted museum in bestselling author Vicki Delany's eighth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery. Scarlet House, now a historical re-enactment museum, is the oldest building in West London, Massachusetts. When things start moving around on their own, board members suggest that Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, might be able to get to the bottom...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental writer Daphne Wood. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne will spend three months as the author in residence for the Inversgail schools. Janet Marsh and her business partners at Yon Bonnie Books are looking forward to hosting a gala book signing for her. Daphne, who hasn't set foot in Scotland in thirty years, is--eccentric. She lives...
89) Something wicked
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Something has poisoned a local summer stock production of Arsenic and Old Lace as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. Someone decides to draw his final curtain. A pompous prosecutor tries to pin the murder on Max, Annie Laurance's own leading man. Unless Annie can prove Max's innocence, their wedding date's off. Annie checks the greasepaint and glitter of backstage life. She'll be next to star in a knock-'em dead scene...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of woman wives hate--for good reason--and most of them wish...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books. Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted. The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven...
95) The goodbye body
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill ... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scarlet Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she's worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became interested in the genre once it got trendy. But when Laura, a pretty and charismatic children's bookseller,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop--and, in a sense restart his life--in a small town on the shores of...
Author
Series
Haunted bookshop mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Norma is a modern-day nomad. Living out of her van and teardrop trailer, she revels in self-reliance, solitude, and reading in the glorious peace of nature. Jovial, wise, and scrupulously honest, she’s become an uplifting presence in the little town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, where bookseller Pen is thankful to have her part-time help. But it’s Norma’s other job, working as a housekeeper at the Finch Inn, that gets her into terrible trouble....
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