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 he’s murdered in Lizzie Turner’s house,
she’s got a holiday homicide on her hands …
For their very first guest author event, most of the book
club members can’t wait to pull out all the stops in
Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing
but trouble—from his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When
he’s 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 Lizzie’s friend, she and her fellow
book club members discover that Derek wasn’t who he
pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against
Lizzie’s boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and
unearthing a novel’s worth of nasty secrets. And as they get
closer to uncovering Derek’s scandalous final manuscript,
someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to
Lizzie’s sleuthing for good…
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