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A Dark and Stormy Murder

A Dark and Stormy Murder, July 2016
Writer's Apprentice
by Julia Buckley

Berkley Prime Crime
Featuring: Camilla Graham; Lena London
304 pages
ISBN: 0425282600
EAN: 9780425282601
Kindle: B016JPTK46
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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"A new series that will end with you wanting more!"

Fresh Fiction Review

A Dark and Stormy Murder
Julia Buckley

Reviewed by Teresa Cross
Posted January 4, 2017

Mystery Cozy

In the first of a new series, A DARK AND STORMY MURDER is absolutely a brilliant beginning! I love the lively characters that Julia Buckley created in this Writer's Apprentice Series down to the furry pets. With the setting being in a small town of Blue Lake, Indiana, Buckley sets the scene of many mysterious individuals that the main character Lena London meets on her first day and gets wrapped up in some of their secrets.

Lena London has a love for the novels written by her favorite author, Camilla Graham. So when she is given the chance to ghost write with her and move to Indiana to share Camilla's Victorian home rent- free she of course moves there with her cat. Wouldn't we all love to have the opportunity to meet and work with our favorite author? As she helps Camilla work on her latest mystery novel, there is a murder that happens outside Camilla's home on Lena's very first day there. What promise to be a quiet town, turns up to have many mysteries of it's own. Lena meets many interesting people that first day and is closer to a killer than she realizes. But as she helps Camilla with her next novel, she cracks more than one case!

This first mystery left you with an ending that will have you drooling for the next edition! Ending with another mystery, Buckley really knows how to get you hooked. After reading A DARK AND STORMY MURDER I found myself wondering where this next mystery will take us. This cozy mystery has everything from the loveable characters to the mysterious happenings and I am betting more secrets to come. I am really excited about this new series with the fresh twist of having the main characters being mystery writers solving real mysteries in their town. A DARK AND STORMY MURDER by Julia Buckley is one novel that any cozy mystery lover would want o read!

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SUMMARY

An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime, in the first in a captivating new series by the author of the Undercover Dish Mysteries. Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any real-life villains... Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana. But Lena’s fortune soon changes for the worse. First, she lands in the center of small town gossip for befriending the local recluse. Then, she stumbles across one thing that a Camilla Graham novel is never without—a dead body, found on her new boss’s lakefront property. Now Lena must take a page out of one of Camilla’s books to hunt down clues in a real crime that seems to be connected to the novelist’s mysterious estate—before the killer writes them both out of the story for good...


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