With their apartment in San Francisco being remodeled,
Brooklyn Wainwright and Derek Stone have temporarily
relocated next door to Brooklyn's parents in Northern
California. Looking forward to a few months of wine
country bliss, Brooklyn is excited to attend an
excavation of a cave in Dharma. When a secret room is
discovered shortly after the digging starts, more
surprising than the priceless paintings and various
treasures founds in the air-tight room is the body that
looks like it had just died a few hours ago.
Thanks to a search of the dead man's belonging, the town
quickly discovers his identity and Guru Bob, the leader
of the commune in Dharma, reveals that the man was
friend's with Guru Bob's grandfather, Anton. Brooklyn
also discovers a map which leads her to an even bigger
treasure that was brought over by the French
during the time the Nazi's were invading France. As word
quickly spreads of the incredible treasure found with a
mummified body, Dharma is overrun with reporters, gawkers
and one truly annoying art appraiser.
While the town comes together to get the treasure back to
those it rightfully belongs to, Brooklyn is on a mission
to find out whether or not Anton was trying to protect
the treasure or steal it for himself. The sins of the
past quickly catch up with the future however and a new
murder rocks the town of Dharma. With so many mysteries
to solve, Brooklyn needs to rally everyone before her
mystery solving days come to an end.
RIPPED FROM THE PAGES, book nine of Kate Carlisle's
Bibliophile Mystery series, takes us out of San
Francisco
and into wine country for not one but two murders.
Getting to visit Brooklyn's quirky family is always a
delight so I was thrilled to find out the entire book
takes place in Dharma. I love the combination of the
mystery from the past intertwined with a mystery in the
present. One of the things I really appreciate and feel
that keeps the series fresh is that Carlisle doesn't
always make Brooklyn the centre of every murder she
stumbles onto. While she may be the amateur sleuth who
figures out who-done-it at the end, Carlisle allows other
characters to become central to the murders.
Without giving anything away, I will say the ending of
the book will have you screaming, "Noooooooooo," while
you shake the book, hoping to etch-a-sketch a few more
words onto the page. As always, a stellar book from an
amazing author. RIPPED FROM THE PAGES is another
suspenseful and humorous mystery full of quirky
characters that you'll want to visit again and again, and
the best thing is, you'll keep guessing about the
murderer until the very end and love every page of it.
When book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright
temporarily
relocates to her parents’ place in Northern California,
she
finds that wooden barrels aren’t the only things buried in
the wine caves of Sonoma….
Excited to explore the secrets of wine country, Brooklyn
attends an excavation of the caves hidden deep under her
parents’ commune—and the findings are explosive. A room is
unearthed, and it contains a treasure trove of artwork,
rare
books, a chest of jewelry…and a perfectly mummified body.
A closer examination of the murdered man’s possessions
reveals a valuable first edition of Jules Verne’s A
Journey
to the Center of the Earth. Hidden in the book is a secret
map that unveils an even greater hoard of treasures
brought
to California by French winemakers fleeing the Nazi
invasion
with the commune leader’s grandfather, Anton, among them.
As reporters and art appraisers flock to Sonoma to see the
precious bounty, questions begin to rise—did Anton hide
these items to protect them, or did he steal them for
himself? Who is the mysterious man left for dead inside
the
cave? But not all crime is buried in the past. When a new
presence threatens the town’s peace, Brooklyn decides to
do
a little excavating of her own and solve the mystery of
the
treasure before anyone else is written off.…
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