Book Series: Beach Reads Mysteries
Summary from Goodreads:
A Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop–and a murder mystery–in this delightful new cozy series for fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams.
Summer Merriweather’s career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder’s thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper’s pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack.
Returning to Brigid’s Island, NC, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell her mom’s embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore, Beach Reads, and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: “Sell the bookstore or die.”
Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid’s Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? The police insist there’s not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing, with the help of Hildy’s beloved book club. But there are more suspects on Brigid’s Island than are dreamt of in the Bard’s darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can’t find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy’s worth of corpses–including her own.
My take opinion:
I absolutely loved the book. I did find it sad that Summer couldn’t make up with Hildy before she was murdered, but I do know that by the end of the story Summer knew that her mother was waiting for her to return home. I believe both Summer and Hildy were stubborn people and that is why they had the fight in the end but given time I am sure they would have made up for it. I am glad that the family stays together and each respects their own opinion expects when it comes to romance novels. Summer does get a surprise of her own throughout the book. I can’t wait to read the next book in line of the series.
Favorite Quote:
From Chapter 8 “Book Shop Whore,” Mr. Darcey. (I might have misspelled the bird’s name.)
My Rating: 5/5
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