When bookbinder and restorer Brooklyn Wainright gets a short
term book appraising gig for national television show This
Old Attic she is nervous about being on camera but ecstatic
at a new venue to share her love of books. Unfortunately the
very first book she appraises leads to her showing up at
another murder scene and being in danger herself.
Kate Carlisle's THE BOOK STOPS HERE is filled with the kind
of detail I love. Lavish descriptions of rare books, details
about author Frances Hodgson Burnett and actress Mae West as
well as vivid scenes in beautiful San Francisco and it's
surroundings form a wonderful backdrop to a very clever
mystery
peopled with charming supporting characters and creepy
villains. Although this is the eighth Bibliophile
Mystery it is the first I have read. I was delighted to
plunge into a new-to-me series that was written so well I
didn't feel at all left out by missing the first seven.
Carlisle gives brief sketches of events and characters who
impact the current story without detracting in the slightest
from my enjoyment.
THE BOOK STOPS HERE intrigues me enough I plan to go get
those previous seven books in the Bibliophile series
(and the novella, too.) Kate Carlisle does a masterful job
of weaving romance, suspense, humor and beloved books into a
plot that keeps you guessing until the very end. I am also
looking forward to the first in her new Fixer Upper
Mystery series, A High End Finish, due out November
2014.
You never know what treasures can be found in someone's
attic. Unfortunately for bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright,
some of them are worth killing for.
Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be appearing on the San
Francisco edition of the hit TV show This Old Attic as a
rare-book expert and appraiser. Her first subject is a very
valuable first-edition copy of the classic children's story
The Secret Garden, which is owned by a flower vendor named
Vera.
Once she hears what her book is worth, Vera is eager to have
Brooklyn recondition it for resale. But after the episode
airs, a furious man viciously accosts Brooklyn, claiming
that Vera found the first edition at his garage sale, and he
wants it back-or else. Brooklyn is relieved that she's put
The Secret Garden in a safe place, but Randolph Rayburn, the
handsome host of This Old Attic, is terrified by the man's
threats. He confides in Brooklyn that he fears he is being
stalked. He doesn't know who might have targeted him, or
why.
In the days that follow, several violent incidents occur on
the set, and Brooklyn is almost killed, leaving both her and
her security expert boyfriend, Derek, shaken. Is someone
after Brooklyn and the book? Or has Randolph's stalker
become more desperate? And then Brooklyn visits Vera's
flower shop-and discovers her dead. Is the murderer one of
the two obvious suspects, or is something more sinister-even
bizarre-going on? Brooklyn had better find the clever killer
soon or more than her chance at prime time may be
canceled-permanently.
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