Happy Friday! A new year brings new opportunities, and 2024 is bringing a book festival to my hometown! Woohoo! One of the authors attending is V. M. Burns, a writer of cozy mysteries. There are dogs involved 😉 . Today I am sharing the latest book in her Mystery Bookshop series. Bookclubbed to Death looks to be a very fun read!
Here’s the first line (I don’t think the characters is speaking to a candy bar, LOL):
“Snickers, come!” I yelled.
V. M. Burns returns with the latest book in her popular Mystery Bookstore mysteries set in a Michigan bookshop specializing in selling murder mysteries.
When the bookshop she owns becomes a crime scene, mystery writer Samantha Washington discovers there is such a thing as bad publicity.
After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately runs afoul of the club leader, Delia Marshall, a book reviewer who can make or break careers—something Sam can ill afford with her debut historical mystery soon to be published.
But the next morning, Sam opens her shop to find the unpleasant woman dead on the floor, bashed with a heavy—apparently lethal—tome: The Complete Works of Agatha Christie. While Sam is busy writing her latest British historical mystery in which the queen mother is suspected in the murder of a London Times correspondent, a pair of ambitious cops suspect Sam of the real-life crime.
When she gathers Nano Jo and their friends from the Shady Acres Retirement Village to review the case, they discover that every one of the Mavens had a motive. With her novel about to hit the stores, Sam must find out who clubbed Delia before a judge throws the book at her.
V.M. (Valerie) Burns was born and raised in the Midwestern United States. She currently resides in the warmer region of the country with her two poodles, Kenzie and Chloe. Valerie is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Dog Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color, International Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime. Valerie is also a mentor in the Writing Popular Fiction MFA program at Seton Hill University. Readers can visit her website at vmburns.com.
I had intended to go to a book festival in my city this past year but wasn’t able to – hoping to go this year! Would be so fun to meet an author or two whose work I enjoy. I love these kinds of cozy mysteries. Happy Reading!
Happy Friday!
I’m just beginning The Earl Next Door by Ashtyn Newbold. I’m excited to read it. Newbold is such a fun author!
“Is it kindness or folly that might induce a genteel young lady to approach a gentleman to inform him of such a personal matter as a tear in his breeches?”
I hope you have a great weekend filled with relaxing reading time. 😊