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North Harbor, MichiganFriday 56:
"Victor Carlston, don't you think it's wicked to sit here enjoying yourself while your dearest relative lies at death's door?"
Dorothy looked at me like I was dim-witted. "Whales can spend their money anywhere. They want to attract them to their casino, instead of Vegas or Atlantic City. Sometimes, whales win and take the casino's money. More often than not, they lose, and the casino's clean up."
The small town of North Harbor on the shores of Lake Michigan is about to have a new mystery bookstore. But before the first customer can browse its shelves, the store’s owner is suspected of her own murder plot . . .
Samantha Washington has dreamed of owning her own mystery bookstore for as long as she can remember. And as she prepares for the store’s grand opening, she’s also realizing another dream—penning a cozy mystery set in England between the wars. While Samantha hires employees and fills the shelves with the latest mysteries, quick-witted Lady Penelope Marsh, long-overshadowed by her beautiful sister Daphne, refuses to lose the besotted Victor Carlston to her sibling's charms. When one of Daphne's suitors is murdered in a maze, Penelope steps in to solve the labyrinthine puzzle and win Victor.
But as Samantha indulges her imagination, the unimaginable happens in real life. A shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, and the police suspect her—after all, the owner of a mystery bookstore might know a thing or two about murder. Aided by her feisty grandmother and an enthusiastic ensemble of colorful retirees, Samantha is determined to close the case before she opens her store. But will she live to conclude her own story when the killer has a revised ending in mind for her?
I love cozies set in bookstores. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
ReplyDelete"Whales can spend their money anywhere." Huh? Whales have money? Funny. My Friday Quotes
ReplyDelete"Whales" is casino-speak for big spenders. Myself, I'm something smaller than a minnow...maybe, phytoplankton.
DeleteI like the quote from page 56.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE cozies.
ReplyDeleteThe cover is so cute.
I see your TBR MOUNTAIN - mine is just as bad. How do you get it to move from screen to screen?
Thanks for coming by my blog.
Click on the heading and it will take you to my LibraryThing Profile. Then you can click on the To Read collection to see all 2168 books.
DeleteI want to know how to make it move. Is that a widget in LIbraryThing?
DeleteYes, it's a LibraryThing Widget. Best you can do is cycle through at 10 seconds a screen.
DeleteBooks about Books/bookstores/libraries are always fun to read!
ReplyDeleteHere is my Friday post! Have a lovely weekend. It's getting warmer for us again, in the UK! ;)
I love the dogs on the cover! Sounds like a great cozy! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! :)
ReplyDeleteThis one sounds interesting. Enjoy your current read!
ReplyDeleteThat looks so cute! Autumn always puts me in the mood for cozies.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute cover! And I love that opening. I do enjoy a cozy mystery. :-) I hope you love this one, Kathy.
ReplyDeleteYou've left me curious for more with those snippets. Happy Labor day weekend!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lot going on with opening a bookstore and writing novels plus solving a murder. I'm tired just reading about it all. :-) Hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteLike the cover as well as the story. Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's a dog one! I read my first ever cosy mystery last week. It was fine, but I wasn't blown away, so I don't see myself desperately seeking more, though neither would I avoid them.
ReplyDeleteFall and Winter seem like the best seasons to pick up a cozy read. Hope you enjoy the weekend!
ReplyDeleteI checked out your Goodreads review and can see just how much you enjoyed reading this one.
ReplyDeleteI know the series has since moved on apace, but as you have introduced me to the first installment, it seems like a good oppotunity to add it to my own list, so thanks for the recommendation.
Any book, involving books, has to be worth serious consideration, although until I read the author profile, I was struggling to see where our canine friends fitted in!
Happy Reading in your next venture :)
Yvonne
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That cover is so cute!
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