The Book Stops Here - A Bibliophile Mystery

Zusatztext Praise for the New York Times Bestselling Bibliophile Mysteries “Kate Carlisle never fails to make me laugh! even as she has me turning the pages to see what’s going to happen next.”—Miranda James! New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries “Carlisle’s dialogue is natural! her prose has great flow! and her striking descriptions bring Brooklyn’s world to life.”— Crimespree Magazine “Captivating....The action builds to a surprising final showdown.”— Publishers Weekly “A true whodunit...highlights Carlisle’s story line skills! her love for books! and her always-endearing heroine.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch Informationen zum Autor A native Californian, New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle worked in television for many years before turning to writing. A lifelong fascination with the art and craft of bookbinding led her to write the Bibliophile Mysteries featuring Brooklyn Wainwright, whose bookbinding and restoration skills invariably uncover old secrets, treachery, and murder. She is also the author of the Fixer-Upper Mysteries featuring small-town girl Shannon Hammer, a building contractor specializing in home restoration. Klappentext Bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright discovers that some treasures are worth killing for in this novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn is thrilled to be appearing on the hit TV show This Old Attic as a rare-book expert and appraiser. Her first subject is a valuable first-edition copy of the children's classic The Secret Garden. After the episode airs! a man storms onto the set claiming that the owner of the book! a flower seller named Vera! found the book at his garage sale! and he wants it back-or else. Afterward! Randolph Rayburn! the show's host! confides in Brooklyn that he's terrified by the man's threats and fears that he is being stalked. When several violent incidents occur on the set! Brooklyn and her security expert boyfriend! Derek! are shaken. But Brooklyn's discovery of Vera's corpse in her flower shop convinces her she has to find the killer-before her chance at prime time and her life are canceled...permanently. Chapter One My mother always warned me to be careful what I wished for, but did I listen to her? Of course not. I love my mom, but this was the same woman who swore by espresso enemas to perk up your spirits. The same woman who performed magic spells and exorcisms on a regular basis and astral traveled around the universe with her trusted spirit guide, Ramlar X. Believe me, I’m very careful about taking advice from my mother. Besides, the thing I was wishing for was more work. Why would that be a problem? I’d been in between bookbinding jobs last month and was telling my friend Ian McCullough, chief curator of the Covington Library, that I wished I could find some new and interesting bookbinding work. That’s when Ian revealed that he had submitted my name to the television show This Old Attic to be their expert book appraiser. I was beside myself with excitement and immediately contacted the show’s producer for an interview. And I got it! I got what I wished for. A job. A great job. With books. That was a good thing, right? Of course, I didn’t dare tell my mother that I considered her advice a bunch of malarkey. After all, some of those magic spells she’d spun had turned out to be alarmingly effective. I would hate to incur her wrath and wake up wearing a donkey’s head—or worse. “Yo, Brooklyn,” Angie, the show’s stage manager said. “You look right into this camera and start talking. Got it?” “Got it,” I lied, pressing my hands against my knees to keep them from shaking uncontrollably. “Absolutely.” “Good,” the stage manager said. “No dead air. Got it?” “Dead air. Right. Got it.” ...

Product details

• Authors: Kate Carlisle
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9780451415998
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41599-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 170 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Bibliophile Mystery; Bibliophile Mystery; Penguin Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense