Friday Memes: Chapter and Curse by Elizabeth Penney

 Happy Friday everybody!

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:

Spring was much later than usual this year. The huge of maples in front of our farmhouse remained bare, their limbs shivering with each blast of cold northern wind.

Friday 56:

"Curiouser and curiouser," as Alice said in Wonderland. "No, I haven't met him." But I would love to. Dignified and elegant, he had a sharp glint in his blue eyes. The constable seemed to be hanging on his every word.

This week I am spotlighting Chapter and Curse by Elizabeth Penney. This is the first book in a series and is a recent addition to my TBR mountain. I added this book because I have the third in the series on my review stack.

Here is the description from Amazon:

"With its bucolic British setting, engaging heroine, and unsolved murder dating back decades, Elizabeth Penney has penned the perfect cozy."–Ellen Byron, USA Today Bestselling Author

Librarian Molly Kimball and her mother, Nina, need a change. So when a letter arrives from Nina’s Aunt Violet in Cambridge, England requesting their help running the family bookshop, they jump at the chance.

Thomas Marlowe—Manuscripts and Folios, is one of the oldest bookshops in Cambridge, and—unfortunately—customers can tell. When Molly and Nina arrive, spring has come to Cambridge and the famed Cambridge Literary Festival is underway. Determined to bring much-needed revenue to the bookstore, Molly invites Aunt Violet’s college classmate and famed poet Persephone Brightwell to hold a poetry reading in the shop. But the event ends in disaster when a guest is found dead—with Molly’s great-aunt’s knitting needle used as the murder weapon. While trying to clear Violet and keep the struggling shop afloat, Molly sifts through secrets past and present, untangling a web of blackmail, deceit, and murder.