To help save her family’s floundering Colorado bookstore, Starlit Bookshop, newly-minted Ph.D. Emma Starrs agrees to plan a mystery-themed dinner party for her wealthy, well-connected high school classmate Tabitha Baxter. It’s a delightful evening of cocktails and conjecture until Tabitha’s husband, Tip—hosting the affair in the guise of Edgar Allan Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin—winds up murdered. In a heartbeat, Emma and her aunt Nora, a famous mystery writer, become suspects. Emma is sure the party’s over for Starlit events, until celebrated author Calliope Nightfall, whose gothic sensibilities are intrigued by the circumstances, implores the bookseller to create a Poe-themed launch event for her latest tome. Throwing a bash to die for while searching for additional clues is already enough to drive Emma stark raven mad, but another shocking crime soon reveals that Silvercrest has not yet reached the final chapter of the puzzling case. Someone in this charming artistic community has murder on the mind, and if Emma cannot outwit the killer, she and her beloved aunt will land behind bars, to walk free nevermore.
Plotting for Murder
Tamra Baumann
audiobookSea Shells and Christmas Bells
Donna Walo Clancy
audiobookDial Meow for Murder
Bethany Blake
audiobookThe Black Cat Sees His Shadow
Kay Finch
audiobookBlack Cat Crossing
Kay Finch
audiobookShow and Sell
Summer Prescott
audiobookThe Hidden Corpse
Debra Sennefelder
audiobookTwelve Angry Librarians
Miranda James
audiobookFive Bloody Hearts
Joy Ellis
audiobookDeath by Chowder
Donna Walo Clancy
audiobookGifts, Glamping, & Glocks
Tonya Kappes
audiobookMurder in a Cup
Lauren Elliott
audiobook