{"id":137,"date":"2022-06-23T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T02:20:43","slug":"death-on-the-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Death on the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Haunted Library Mystery <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/16542055.Allison_Brook\">Allison Brook<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/161602.Marilyn_Levinson\"><br>Marilyn Levinson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 2021 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN 9781643857800<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Librarian Carrie Singleton sleuths a murder at her best friend\u2019s wedding in Agatha Award nominee Allison Brook\u2019s fifth Haunted Library mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton is thrilled to attend her best friend Angela\u2019s wedding, but Angela\u2019s family can be a bit\u2026much. Angela\u2019s wealthy cousin Donna hosts an extravagant bridal shower at her resplendent home, but the celebrations turn to gossip as the guests notice Donna\u2019s surgeon husband, Aiden, spending a bit too much time with Donna\u2019s cousin Roxy. At the wedding reception, the sweet occasion turns darkly bitter when Aiden topples into the chocolate fountain\u2013dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect list is as long as the guest list, and as difficult to sort out as the seating chart. A few of the top contenders on Carrie\u2019s suspect list are the flirtatious Roxy, emotionally unstable since her recent divorce; Angela\u2019s grouchy brother, who feels Aiden betrayed him; and Roxy\u2019s scorned ex-husband. Even Donna may have had reason to want her husband dead. And Aiden\u2019s gossipy office manager has plenty to say about them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then another member of Angela\u2019s family is murdered, making Carrie more determined than ever to find the killer. Can library ghost Evelyn and library cat Smoky Joe help Carrie solve the murders before she becomes the next of Angela\u2019s wedding guests to head to the grave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to admit I find books with silly covers a bit of a put off.\u00a0 However the synopsis pulled me in and I decided to give it\u00a0a go.. and I&#8217;m so glad I did.\u00a0 I love thrillers, murder mysteries but there are times when they get so intense it&#8217;s difficult to put the book down and you get gripped headlong into a tunnel of twists and turns. Death on the shelf was a light-hearted easy read and part of the series The Haunted Library.\u00a0I didn&#8217;t always remember the story when I picked up from where I left off but actually it was really easy to get back into.\u00a0Carrie is a likeable character and Evelyn adds another dimension to the story. Having not read Alison&#8217;s previous books I was quickly aware that this is from a series with Carrie and Evelyn a team.\u00a0 That aside you don&#8217;t need to have read the previous books to understand what is going on, Alison puts us in the picture and gives us a complete story without the need to re-introduce us to the previous books characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Haunted Library Mystery Allison Brook Marilyn Levinson Nov 2021 ISBN 9781643857800 About: Librarian Carrie Singleton sleuths a murder at her best friend\u2019s wedding in Agatha Award nominee Allison Brook\u2019s fifth Haunted Library mystery. Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton is thrilled to attend her best friend Angela\u2019s wedding, but Angela\u2019s family can be a bit\u2026much. 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