Booked on Murder
About Booked on Murder
Booked on Murder (A Haunted Library Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
8th in Series
Setting - Connecticut
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books (August 6, 2024)
Hardcover : 304 pages
Librarian Carrie Singleton must catch a killer before she can say “I do” in the 8th delightful installment in Agatha Award-nominee Allison Brook’s Haunted Library mystery series.
Carrie Singleton is ready to kiss the single life goodbye. Her wedding to Dylan Avery is just a few weeks away, and a happy ending is about to be hers. But when a body is found on the lawn of their wedding venue, happily-ever-after is looking deadlier than ever.
The victim turns out to be Billy Carpenter, a young man recently released from prison after serving time for a bank robbery. The stolen money he’d buried is gone and Carrie and the police suspect Billy’s two alleged co-conspirators, his friends Luke Rizzo and Tino Valdez. But then Luke is murdered and Tino is nowhere to be found.
With no leads and only a week to go before her big day, Carrie is on the hunt for clues. She hopes to wrap up this investigation with a neat bow before she and Dylan tie the knot. Carrie has something old, something new, and something borrowed ready for her walk down the aisle. Now she needs to find the killer without becoming the ‘something blue.’
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About Allison Brook
A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and novels for kids. Her books have received many accolades. As Allison Brook, she writes A Haunted Library series. Death Overdue, the first in the series, was an Agatha nominee for Best Contemporary Novel in 2018. Other mysteries include the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series, the Twin Lakes series, and Giving Up the Ghost. Her romantic suspense, Come Home to Death, was released on April 30, 2024, and her romantic suspense, Dangerous Relations, will be republished in 2025.
Marilyn's juvenile novel, Rufus and Magic Run Amok, was an International Reading Association-Children's Book Council Children's Choice and recently appeared in a new edition. And Don't Bring Jeremy was a nominee for six state awards. Her YA horror, The Devil's Pawn, came out in a new edition in January 2024.
Marilyn lives on Long Island, where many of her books take place. She loves traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku, chatting on FaceTime with her grandkids, and playing with her kittens, Romeo and Juliet.
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My Thoughts
Booked on Murder by Allison Brook is the eighth and final A Haunted Library Mystery. It can be read as a standalone (the author provides the necessary details for new readers), but I recommend reading the series from the beginning (it will allow you to get to know the characters and their storylines). Carrie and Dylan are two weeks away from their wedding. The spend time discussing their plans and taking care of items on their to do list. Dylan and Carrie are house hunting. Evidently, the cottage where they currently reside will be too small after the wedding. I thought they would move into Dylan’s manor house instead of purchasing a new (to them) home.
There
are two mysteries in Booked on Murder.
One revolves around a historical diary written by Verity Babcock who was
hung as a witch. The second deals with a
man who was recently paroled after serving a prison sentence for bank
robbery. The authorities never recovered
the stolen money. The victim is found
dead by Carrie and Dylan on the lawn of their wedding venue near an empty
hole. Carrie asks questions and searches
for clues in between working at the library, wedding planning, and house
hunting. Evelyn, the fashionable library
ghost, provides some helpful tidbits. I thought Carrie and Dylan’s wedding day
suited them perfectly. I was left with a couple unanswered questions at the end. Since Booked on Murder is the final book, I wish there had been an epilogue. Fans of
the series will enjoy the nuptials and be sorry to see the series come to an
end.
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