Homicide in hardcover

a bibliophile mystery Wheeler Publishing large print cozy mystery

English language

Published Feb. 4, 2009 by Wheeler Pub..

ISBN:
9781597229913

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2 stars (2 reviews)

murder is always a bestseller...first in the new bibliophile mystery series!The streets of San Francisco would be lined with hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright had her way. And her mentor wouldn't be lying in a pool of his own blood on the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration.With his final breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, and gives her a priceless—and supposedly cursed—copy of Goethe's Faust for safekeeping.Brooklyn suddenly finds herself accused of murder and theft, thanks to the humorless—but attractive—British security officer who finds her kneeling over the body. Now she has to read the clues left behind by her mentor if she is going to restore justice...

2 editions

Formulaic fungible fluff

1 star

Brooklyn Wainwright is a book restorer who is first to find the body of her murdered mentor. Can she solve the murder before she's arrested? Of course she can! This was awful. There's so much wrong with it, it's difficult to know where to begin. Book repair is library adjacent so I was curious to read this. Alas! I wager the author has a degree in book preservation from the University of Google where the course teaches that you can eat and drink around rare materials. Before the book starts, the heroine has obviously been on the head many times by a hammer, the only way I can explain her stupidity. Nominally a mystery, providing you define a mystery as a novel in which there's a murder after which the heroine runs around aimlessly, faints a lot and eventually confronts the murderer. Clues? Deduction? Logic? Look elsewhere, dear reader. The …

Subjects

  • Bookbinders -- Fiction
  • Rare books -- Expertising -- Fiction
  • Rare books -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction
  • Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
  • Large type books