17 September 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-06872094-9 (HB)
Gemma Curtis is the proprietor of The Bookworm Bookshop which is situated on the corner of the marketplace. She was happy with her bookshop and the hum of the coffee machine in the adjoining café area. However, business was slow and not helped by people who browsed, found a book they liked and then took out the mobile phone found the book on kindle, bought it online and off they went.
Mavis Rawlings her shop assistant remarked ‘Such a shame they miss the whole point, don’t they the feel of the pages, the smell of the paper.’ We need something to bring more readers in. She ponders for a while and then suggests that they could draw people in by inviting an author to talk about his books.
They decide to invite local author Dominic Westley to do a book signing at The Bookworm. He arrives late and doesn’t look well, and eventually he keels over and dies. Not a good start to their decision to entice more customers into the shop. However undeterred her trusty assistant Mavis comes up with several more ideas.
Meanwhile they learn that the police have ruled the death as an accidental overdose. But Gemma having met Dominic’s estranged wife begins to suspect that all is not right. She and Mavis, decide to do a little investigating themselves. Was it an accidental overdose, or something more sinister?
Set
in a small town in Derbyshire, this is a delightful mystery. I liked the characters and enjoyed the way
they developed during the story going from Boss and assistant to two friends. If was a fun read, but with some clever
twists to keep one reading. Recommended.
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Reviewer:
Lizzie Sirett
S. A. Reeves is the pen name of a husband and wife writing duo, who have been married for over twenty years. They are based near the Peak District in Derbyshire (United Kingdom). They both like to read and watch murder mysteries, and will frequently stand in front of a whiteboard, plotting the perfect murder—for creative Fiction purposes, of course.
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