Violet Waverly and her Grandma Daisy are coordinating a book
signing at Morton Vineyards. Violet isn't exactly thrilled
with the location, as she once dated the owner's son,
Nathan. However, Charming Books is featuring the book of
sommelier Belinda Perkins, and the sales look to be robust.
Unfortunately, Belinda Perkins also has a past in the town
of Cascade Springs, a past that leaves her murdered. Worse
yet, Violet's friend and Belinda's sister, Lacey, is the
prime suspect. Can Violet solve the mystery with clues from
her Magical Bookshop?
MURDERS AND METAPHORS is the third book in the Magical
Bookshop series but can easily be read on its own
merits. Amanda Flower gives readers enough history of
Violet's past with Nathan for readers new to the story. We
also get a nice recap of the Waverly family history as it
applies to Violet's role as Caretaker of a magical book
store and tree.
The relationships in the Magical
Bookshop series are starting to get complicated in
MURDERS AND METAPHORS. Violet struggles with the fear that
she is destined to be either alone or unlucky in love due to
the Waverly family role of Caretaker. However, her
attraction to Police Chief David Rainwater has her
questioning whether the family history of always being alone
is just a myth or her fate.
I absolutely love the concept of a magical bookstore that
uses books as clues to the murder! Even better, Charming
Books always ensures that customers get exactly the book
they want or need, no matter what Violet and Grandma Daisy
believe is in stock. What reader wouldn't want to explore
the shelves of such special book store like Charming Books?
MURDERS AND METAPHORS is exactly the book that any cozy
reader is looking for!
USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back
with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical
Bookshop mystery. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake,
prepare your bookshelves!
Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma
Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing
turned into her sayonara.
January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region,
but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet
Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past
heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight
grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or
incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. But
Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs
Violet that she’s already arranged for the mystical Charming
Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins’s book
signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know,
the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet
finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard—with a
grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.
Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs, but she left town years
ago after a huge falling-out with her three sisters. One of
those sisters, Violet’s high school friend Lacey Dupont,
attends the book signing in the hope of making amends with
her sister, but Belinda and Lacey end up disrupting the
signing with a very public shouting match and Lacey quickly
becomes the prime suspect in the sommelier’s murder.
Violet is sure Lacey is innocent, and to keep her friend out
of prison, Violet asks for guidance from her magical
bookshop. The shop’s ethereal essence points her to Louisa
May Alcott’s Little Women, but what have the four
March sisters to do with the four Perkins sisters? If she
can’t figure it out, Violet, herself, may turn as cold as
ice. Violet, Grandma Daisy, Emerson the tuxedo cat, and
resident crow Faulkner are back on the case in Murders
and Metaphors, USA Today bestselling author
Amanda Flower’s enchanting third Magical Bookshop mystery.
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