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Title details for The Grim Reader by Kate Carlisle - Available

The Grim Reader

#14 in series

by Kate Carlisle
Susie Berneis
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Brooklyn and her new hunky husband Derek are excited to be guests at Dharma's first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved, and Brooklyn's mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event-related duties, she's got Brooklyn doing rare-book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, a musical to delight the festival-goers. If that wasn't enough, she and Meg—Derek's mom—will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards. Brooklyn couldn't be prouder of her mom's do-it-all attitude, so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air. Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn's nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode, and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bibliophile Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 9, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666552171
      • File size: 290824 KB
      • Duration: 10:05:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 27, 2020
      Bestseller Carlisle’s delightful 14th Bibliophile mystery (after 2019’s The Book Supremacy) takes San Francisco book restorer Brooklyn Wainwright and her hubby, former MI5 agent Derek Stone, to the town of Dharma in Sonoma County, where Brooklyn’s parents operate a winery. Her mom, Becky, is in charge of Dharma’s first book festival, which will include a musical staging of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and booths devoted to local wineries. Brooklyn and Derek offer to protect Becky after obnoxious Jacob Banyan makes numerous threats in an attempt to force Becky to allot him a booth to promote his tacky box wine. When a festival committee member is murdered, Becky suspects Banyan, but others soon emerge as possible culprits. A diverting subplot involves a difficult actor in the Little Women production, and fascinating booklore enhances the whodunit plot. This long-running cozy series shows no signs of losing steam. Agent: Christina Hogrebe, Jane Rotrosen Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Susie Berneis chronicles the fourteenth mystery in the Bibliophile Mysteries series, featuring Brooklyn, a rare book expert and amateur sleuth. Brooklyn, as depicted by Berneis, is self-assured, smart, and devoted to her family. She has come to a seemingly idyllic town in Sonoma County's wine country to help her mother organize a book fair. Since this is a murder mystery, there are corpses, dark deeds, and a rare book that plays a deadly part. In her clear, soft voice, Berneis creates perfect portrayals of the aging San Francisco hippies turned winemakers. Portrayals of the English characters, namely, Brooklyn's heartthrob of a husband and his parents, prove to be more of a challenge. Nonetheless, this listening experience is a pleasant diversion. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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