Booked for Murder: A Mystery by P.J. Nelson
Published: December
10, 2024 by Minotaur Books
Genre: Cozy
Mystery
Taken from Goodreads: In this atmospheric southern cozy debut, Madeline Brimley returns to the bookstore she inherited, discovering that small towns hold deadly secrets.
Madeline Brimley left small town Georgia many years ago to go to college and pursue her dreams on the stage. Her dramatic escapades are many but success has eluded her, leaving her at loose ends. But then she gets word that not only has her beloved, eccentric Aunt Rose passed, but she's left Madeline her equally eccentric bookstore housed in an old Victorian mansion in the small college town of Enigma. But when she arrives in her beat-up Fiat to claim The Old Juniper Bookstore, and restart her life, Madeline is faced with unexpected challenges. The gazebo in the back yard is set ablaze and a late night caller threatens to burn the whole store down if she doesn't leave immediately.
But Madeline Brimley, not one to be intimidated, ignores the threats and soldiers on. Until there's another fire and a murder in the store itself. Now with a cloud of suspicion falling over her, it's up to Madeline to untangle the skein of secrets and find the killer before she herself is the next victim.
My Thoughts: Booked for Murder is a cute, cozy mystery set
in a small town with the main part of the story being set in a bookstore. I love that the bookstore is in an house and
really has no organization of the books.
In my mind I could see myself wandering the shelves and seeing a
historical fiction book next to a self-help book with an autobiography next to
that. I love it!
The characters were quirky and fun. I felt like they were a little flat, and needed
a little more spunk and dimension. The
characters seemed to repeat themselves and not show much excitement at their
lives. I would have liked to know more about the history of the characters. A
few of the secondary characters were mentioned, stories were started but not
finished.
The setting and the story held much potential but it just
did not do it for me.
Thank you Minotaur Books for a copy of the book via
NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
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