The Paper Caper

Informationen zum Autor Kate Carlisle Klappentext San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright loves a good book festival except when murder is the main event in this thrilling new addition to the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn is excited to be included in the Covington Library’s first annual Mark Twain Festival. She’ll rebind a rare first edition of The Prince and the Pauper before an enthusiastic audience of book nerds—her favorite people. The festival is the passion project of wealthy media mogul, book lover, and newspaper owner Joseph Cabot, who considers himself Twain’s biggest fan. Brooklyn’s hunky husband, Derek, and his security team once rescued Joseph from a corporate kidnapping attempt. Now Derek and his agents are charged with keeping Joseph and his beautiful young wife safe during the festivities taking place all over town.    The centerpiece of the festival is a citywide contest based on The Prince and the Pauper : one lucky look-alike will trade places with Joseph for a few days—with access to all the money and power that Joseph commands. Brooklyn and Derek worry that the contest might be generating some dangerous attention. And when someone is mysteriously poisoned right before Brooklyn’s eyes, she’s not convinced that the victim was the intended target. Now she and Derek must frantically chase clues and suspects through the streets of San Francisco before another murder becomes front-page news. . . . Leseprobe Chapter 1   "San Francisco is a city of startling events. Happy is the man whose destiny it is to gather them up and record them in a daily newspaper!"   -Mark Twain's letter to the Territorial Enterprise, December 23, 1865   Joseph Cabot was a multibillionaire, an entrepreneur, a technological genius, and a social media superstar. He had his creative fingers in dozens of the most lucrative pots, as well as a few that weren't so lucrative-but they made him happy so he didn't care. Real estate development, aeronautics, restaurants, manufacturing, and computer design, you name the industry and Joseph's name was invariably connected to all the top performers.   He was a gregarious man who loved people. He was a sportsman, too, and enjoyed everything from basketball to fly-fishing.   When something intrigued him, he would immerse himself in the subject. His latest obsession was windmills.   And he was a voracious reader. He loved books. He had amassed an impressive library of hundreds of rare antiquarian volumes as well as thousands of bestsellers in every genre known to man. It was Joseph's love of books that made him a superstar in my book.   But more than anything else he'd accomplished, Joseph considered himself a newspaperman. It was an old-fashioned term, but that was why it appealed to him. He loved being the owner and publisher of the San Francisco Clarion Press, along with its affiliated nationwide network of television and radio stations that specialized in the basics: news, weather, and sports. He loved the idea of keeping people informed.   The ladies of San Francisco high society adored Joseph, for obvious reasons. He was in his late forties, tall and strong and video-star handsome, with thick, graying hair and a twinkle in his bright blue eyes.   And he just happened to be one of my husband Derek's best friends.   The two men had met fifteen years ago when Derek and his Stone Security team carried out a daring operation to rescue Joseph from a group of militant kidnappers who had stormed an elegant conference room in Mindanao and forced him at gunpoint off the stage and into a van. They had transported him blindfolded to their lair in the middle of some jungle, where they threw him into a cage and then began the negotiations for his release. ...

Product details

• Authors: Kate Carlisle
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.09.2023
• EAN: 9780593201480
• ISBN: 978-0-593-20148-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Bibliophile Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense