The local bookshop owner talks Lizzie into inviting author Derek Alton to the next meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Club. Never mind that she has never done such a thing before and the club isn't really ready for this kind of event.
Derek Alton is handsome, egotistical, and makes a play for Lizzie during dinner. Lizzie's acceptance of the invitation cools things a little with her boyfriend, Mark, the new police chief in town. When Derek is shot while visiting Lizzie as she hangs her mistletoe, events start to snowball.
All of a sudden, everyone starts asking if Lizzie knows anything about Alton's new book. Alton wrote one best seller and his later books weren't all that good. Rumor has it that his latest tell all is going to shock people.
As Lizzie tries to clear her name, she learns that Derek lived in Ashton Corners at one time. His best seller was set on events that really happened and everyone worries that his next book will expose even more.
Lizzie will face incredible danger as she works to clear her name and learns more about the events that lead to Derek's death.
The second in the Ashton Corner Book Club Mysteries series, READ AND BURIED, is an enjoyable book that doesn't take itself too seriously. Ms. Chase has created some unique characters in a small southern town. While I feel that she plugs healthy eating a little too often, I still enjoy following Lizzie around as she works and investigates.
Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup
for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw
Society. But when heβs murdered in Lizzie Turnerβs house,
sheβs got a holiday homicide on her hands β¦
For their very first guest author event, most of the book
club members canβt wait to pull out all the stops in
Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing
but troubleβfrom his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When
heβs found murdered in her living room, it seems someone
decided that this womanizing writer would be better off dead
than read.
After suspicion falls on Lizzieβs friend, she and her fellow
book club members discover that Derek wasnβt who he
pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against
Lizzieβs boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and
unearthing a novelβs worth of nasty secrets. And as they get
closer to uncovering Derekβs scandalous final manuscript,
someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to
Lizzieβs sleuthing for goodβ¦
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