Death on the Page
A Castle Bookshop Mystery
by Essie Lang
Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
I am reviewing a copy of Death on the Page through Crooked Lane Books and Netgalley:
Shelby Cox is a Thousand Island bookstore who finds herself sleuthing the murder of true crime writer who may have been murdered due to digging into a murder case that should have stayed shut.
There are a lot of stories in Thousand Island New York, and Shelby Cox carries them all in her bookstore, lately though the Bayside Books Co-Owner Shelby Cox life is more investigation than it is inventory. True Crime Writer Savannah Page ends two successful nights of book signings with an overnight stay in Blye Castle. Savannah is there to research the murder of Joe Cabana, a Prohibition era mobster who owned the Castle and was found murdered in the Grotto.
Savannah soon becomes a victim of murder herself, when her body turns up the next morning, at a secret passage at the bottom of the stairs. Shelby Cox does not want sleuth another murder, but she can’t help but wonder how the killer could have made it to the Island during the night and she’s not lacking suspects either. Liam Kennelly whose Savannah’s fiancé and who argued with her that night is one of the suspects she has in mind. And there’s Matthew Kessler the towns caretaker who was just cleared of his wives murder.
Can Shelby manage to keep regular store hours, elude the police chief, and gather the clues she needs to solve the murder, without risking her freedom and career?
I give Death on a Page Five out of Five Stars!
Happy Reading
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