Bookmarked for Murder

Bookmarked for Murder
Author: Marion Moore Hill
Publisher: The Fiction Works
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003
Genre: Hate groups
ISBN: 1581240317

The beating of a gentle minister and a hate message on one church wall launch wry-witted librarian Juanita Wills on a quest to learn who's shattering the peace in her small Oklahoma town. Defying her policeman boyfriend's warning against amateur sleuthing, Juanita decodes a mysterious cipher bookmark, and tracks a secret local militia. When a "war" of quotations between her feuding assistant librarians takes a threatening turn, she even suspects one of them.

Bookmarked for Murder

Bookmarked for Murder
Author: V.M. Burns
Publisher: Mystery Bookshop
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496718313

"After some post-Christmas retail therapy in the Windy City, mystery bookshop owner and historical whodunit novelist Sam Washington is returning home to North Harbor, Michigan, on a chartered bus. With Nana Jo and her gal pals Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae from Shady Acres Retirement Village along for the ride, it's a lively trip. But one passenger is not so lively - a gentleman Irma befriended is found dead in his seat after an unscheduled stop. The ladies immediately shift gears to find out who punched his ticket, while Sam slips into the driver's seat to make sure Nana Jo and her crew steer clear of fatal conclusions."--Back cover

Bookmarked for Murder

Bookmarked for Murder
Author: Marion Moore Hill
Publisher: The Fiction Works
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Librarians
ISBN: 9781581242614

Bookmarked For Murder

Bookmarked For Murder
Author: Dan Andriacco
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780928955

Pages Gone By is more than just Erin, Ohio's only used book store. It's also a favorite meeting place for writers and readers. And early one morning, it becomes the scene of a murder when a body is found in the romance section. Is the steamy novel, Love’s Dark Secret, clutched in the victim’s handa clue to the killer? Or is it more significant that the murder weapon was a statue of the iconic Maltese Falcon of film noir fame? As polymath mystery writer Sebastian McCabe and sardonic sidekick Jeff Cody try to unmask the murderer of a friend, they get more help than they need from a talk show psychologist and a group of would-be mystery writers with more imagination than deductive skills. But only they know that one suspect has big secrets to hide – secrets that Mac and Jeff hope don’t have to be revealed. An homage to the Golden Age of detective fiction, the witty and suspense Bookmarked for Murder once again shows why novelist and screenwriter Bonnie MacBird called Dan Andriacco “a master of mystery plotting.”

Bookmarked For Death

Bookmarked For Death
Author: Lorna Barrett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440698325

Tricia Miles, owner of the Haven?t Got a Clue bookstore, must solve her own mystery when a bestselling author is found dead in the washroom.

Bookclubbed to Death

Bookclubbed to Death
Author: V.M. Burns
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2022-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496739477

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 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 . . . Praise for KILLER WORDS “Quirky characters are the heart of this cozy.” —Kirkus Reviews “Charming . . . Newcomers will have fun, while established fans will relish the evolution of the characters and welcome Samantha’s bright new future.” —Publishers Weekly

Bookmarked for Murder

Bookmarked for Murder
Author: Marion Moore Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781633634503

Bookmarked for Murder features Juanita Wills, intrepid (aka nosy) public librarian in the small town of Wyndham, Oklahoma. In this first book in the Scrappy Librarian series, Juanita takes on a dangerous mix of murder, local militias, and deep-seated racism, as she tries to get to the bottom of a hate crime that takes place in a local church. Juanita is nothing if not stubborn, whether she is pestering suspects, trying to keep a book club on track, or playing referee to the "quote wars" that inspire her staff to their own version of literary mayhem. The small-town setting is pleasantly familiar, and the story a satisfying tale of secrets unraveled and justice sought. Marion Moore Hill is the author of the Scrappy Librarian mystery series and the Deadly Past mysteries. She lives in Durant, Oklahoma.

A Killer Edition

A Killer Edition
Author: Lorna Barrett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984802739

Murder's in the mix for mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Tricia Miles, in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Stoneham Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she’d hoped. Balancing a bake-off that’s heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman’s romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it’s an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Olson instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce’s garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder—could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town? One thing is for sure, someone in Stoneham is stirring up something more sinister than sweet. Tricia is determined to win the cutthroat cooking contest, but first she will have to make sure no one else is in danger of getting burned....

Bookmarked to Die

Bookmarked to Die
Author: Jo Dereske
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0060790822

With her life falling apart, thanks to professional jealousy on the part of her conniving boss, library director May Apple Moon, librarian Wilhelmina "Helma" Zukas finds herself blackmailed into participating in group counseling sessions, a situation that becomes complicated by the murders of two of the participants.

Book Clubbed

Book Clubbed
Author: Lorna Barrett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 042526212X

The New York Times bestselling author of Not the Killing Type is back in Booktown with another page-turning mystery. Bookstore owner Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, must put their problems on the shelf to catch a killer who turns a bookcase into a murder weapon… After cranky Chamber of Commerce receptionist Betsy Dittmeyer is crushed by a fallen bookcase, the next item to be read is her will, which is packed with surprises. It seems Betsy was hiding volumes of secrets behind her perpetual frown—one of which might have been a motive for murder. While Tricia tries to help Angelica—the newly elected Chamber of Commerce president—solve the mystery, she discovers a hidden chapter in her own family history. And with her ex-husband and the chief of police vying for her affections, it’s doubly hard to focus on who buried Betsy in a tomb of tomes. But Tricia and Angelica will need to watch their step carefully to make sure the killer doesn’t catch them between the stacks.