The Blue Ridge Mountains, enjoyable historic tidbits, a touch of the supernatural, and a style of romance—this bookish cozy thriller sequence debut a couple of crime-solving librarian is “one of the best” (New York Journal of Books).
Librarian Amy Webber should archive overdue crimes and lethal rumors earlier than a killer strikes once more in small-town Virginia . . .
Fleeing a disastrous love affair, college librarian Amy Webber strikes in along with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain city in Virginia. She rapidly busies herself with managing a captivating public library that requires all her consideration with its extreme lack of funds and overabundance of eccentric patrons. The final thing she wants is a brand new, out there neighbor whose allure lures her into bother.
Dancer-turned-teacher and choreographer Richard Muir inherited the farmhouse subsequent door from his great-uncle, Paul Dassin. But city folklore claims the home’s unique proprietor was poisoned by his spouse, who was an outsider. It rapidly grew to become water underneath the bridge, till she vanished after her sensational 1925 homicide trial. Determined to clear the identify of the girl his great-uncle beloved, Richard implores Amy to assist him examine the case. Amy is skeptical till their analysis raises questions on the culpability of the city’s main households . . . together with her personal.
When inexplicable murders plunge the quiet city into chaos, Amy and Richard should crack open the books to disclose a merciless conspiracy and lay a turbulent previous to relaxation in A Murder for the Books, the first installment of Victoria Gilbert’s Blue Ridge Library mysteries.
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