Author: Kate Carlisle
Paperback: 304 pages(also available in large print, Kindle)
Publisher: Signet (Feb. 3, 2009)
Synposis:
Brooklyn Wainwright, a book restorer, had a falling out with her mentor and former employer Abraham Karastovsky. Everyone knows that. What they don’t know is that Brooklyn had a chance to make up with him…no one knows because later that night she found him murdered. Everyone’s looking at Brooklyn for the murder but she’s looking at the cursed book he was working on and his competitors in the world of book restoration. Along the way she undercovers plenty of secrets in the staid world of book restoration!
You can read an excerpt of Homicide In Hardcover here.
Review:
I love mysteries and read them often. So I’d just like to thank Kate Carlisle for not producing the standard question mark-triangle format. An amateur female detective investigating a mystery and managing two burgeoning romances: one with a good guy and one with a bad guy. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Now that I’ve told you what Homicide in Hardcover isn’t, let me tell you what it is. Homicide in Hardcover has a few of my favorite things: quirky characters, secrets, and unexpected twists in the plot. Although some of her references and descriptions of San Francisco spots had me(an East Coast girl) going huh?, her insider’s look at the world of book restoration was fun. Kate, were you a book restorer before you wrote mysteries? We’re all searching for the page turner we just can’t put down and, with her many plot twists and secrets, Carlisle created that. With enough comedy thrown in to make it fun!
Just Thought You Should Know:
The second book in the series If Books Could Kill: A Bibliophile Mystery was released Feb. 2, 2010.
I loved this mystery book. It was unique and the main plot didn’t get cast off as a side-story while Brooklyn’s love life took the center stage. Great review!