Nadaness In Motion: Little Bookshop of Murder by Maggie Blackburn

Friday, September 11, 2020

Little Bookshop of Murder by Maggie Blackburn – Spotlight

Today, I'm featuring a spotlight for Little Bookshop of Murder by Maggie Blackburn.

I really wanted to read this book but I knew my time constraints and the time available for reading this wasn't going to be enough.

Check out the blurb/synopsis and you'll know why I had to feature Little Bookshop of Murder in any capacity on my book blog.

Should I have the time at the end of 2020 or next year, I'll definitely pick it up.

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Book: Little Bookshop of Murder
(Book 1 in The Beach Reads Mystery series)
Author: Maggie Blackburn
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Publishing date: 8 September 2020
ISBN-10: 1643854380
ISBN-13: 978-1643854380
Digital ASIN: B0818ZX2NY

Blurb:

A Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop--and a murder mystery--in this delightful new cozy series for fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams.

Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic life at her Virginia University is a viper's pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack.

Returning to Brigid's Island, NC, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell her mom's embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore, Beach Reads, and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: "Sell the bookstore or die."

Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid's Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? The police insist there's not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing, with the help of Hildy's beloved book club. But there are more suspects on Brigid's Island than are dreamt of in the Bard's darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can't find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy's worth of corpses--including her own.

About Maggie Blackburn

Maggie Blackburn is the author of the Cora Crafts mysteries and the Cumberland Creek mysteries under another pen name. Her books have been selected as finalists for an Agatha Award and a Daphne du Maurier Award and as a Top 10 Beach Reads by Woman's World.

She has also been short-listed for the Virginia Library People's Choice Award. She is the mother of two young women who are off following their dreams in the music business. She currently lives in Waynesboro, VA, and works at the University of Virginia as a development associate.

Connect with author Maggie Blackburn via her Website and Twitter @molliecoxbryan

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8 September à Baroness' Book Trove – Book Review & Cozy Up With Kathy – Book Review & Character Interview & Ascroft, eh? – Character Interview & Thoughts in Progress – Spotlight

9 September à Hearts & Scribbles & Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – Spotlights & Books a Plenty Book Reviews & Sapphyria's Books – Book Reviews

10 September à FUONLYKNEW & The Pulp and Mystery Shelf & Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic à Spotlights & I'm All About Books à Spotlight and Recipe