Charli Rae Warren is content with the success of her bookstore, the Book Barn Princess, but her cousin, Jamal, has other ideas. He's created a new app that he hopes will generate more business for Charli's store, along with creating a generous profit off the app for himself. He's offered her the tantalizing incentive of having her favorite author, Lucy Barton, do a signing for the store and tied it into the app. Unfortunately, someone is taking advantage of the virtual scavenger app to leave behind a trail of murders, all based on the author's series. Can Charlie uncover the real culprit or is her cousin about to be imprisoned for murder?
The concept of Jamal's app is a fun one, and I wish a bookstore would create this very same so I could go on my own virtual scavenger hunt- minus the dead bodies of course! Kym Roberts beautifully blends together the warm, inviting ambiance of the bookstore with current smartphone technology to craft one heck of a fascinating story.
And speaking of the bookstore in PERILOUS POETRY....I'm not going to lie as I want to visit the Book Barn Princess and just sit and relish each and every moment in this wonderful book store! Kym Roberts has crafted a booklover's dream in the Book Barn Princess. Add to that a darned good cozy mystery story and some intriguing character developments and I'm hooked. Princess, the pink armadillo mascot for the story, is simply the icing on the wonderful cake!
PERILOUS POETRY is the third book in the Book Barn Mystery series but readers can jump right in and enjoy the story line without reading the first two books. However, I intend to go back and read the first two books as Charli and the town of Hazel Rock, Texas, are just sheer fun. Besides, who can resist a book about a bookstore with a pink armadillo as its mascot? I can't wait to visit some more with these fun characters!
Charli Rae Warren doesnβt plan on striking it rich as the
owner of an independent bookstore in Hazel Rock,
Texasβespecially one with a pink armadillo as its mascot.
But when an ingenious advertising campaign puts her business
on the map, it ropes in some deadly publicity . . .
Charli canβt believe writer Lucy Barton has agreed to
promote her latest Midnight Poet Society novel at The Book
Barn Princessβor that thereβs only a week-and-a-half to
prepare for the signing. Itβs all because of The Book
Seekers, a smartphone app created by her cousin Jamal
exclusively for Charliβs bookstore, which sends fans on a
virtual scavenger hunt around town for a chance to meet the
bestselling author. But as soon as it goes live, people turn
up dead . . .
Someoneβs using The Book Seekers to track victims and
copycat the fictional Midnight Poet Society homicides, and
horrified locals suspect Jamal could be the mastermind
behind the crimes. While Charli readies the Barn for a
stampede of new customers, itβll take true grit to shelve
the culprit before her brainy cousin gets locked behind
bars, Ms. Barton backs out of the visit, and she finds
herself up a creekβwith a serial killer holding the paddle!
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