Booked on Murder - A Review & Giveaway

 Review

BOOKED ON MURDER by Allison Brook
The Eighth Haunted Library Mystery 

 

The countdown has begun. The wedding of Carrie Singleton and Dylan Avery is just two weeks away. Wedding preparations are keeping Carrie busy, so she's annoyed when her boss informs her she has to write an article for the newspaper about the library's latest discovery-the diary of Verity Babcock, a woman hung for witchcraft in 1652. Passion for the subject and fury that the woman was never exonerated soon tempers Carrie's annoyance and the article practical writes itself. Thrilled that their good friend, Victor, is letting them use his home as their wedding venue the couple check the property while he's away. While they determine the perfect seating arrangement, they also find something unexpected-the body of a murdered man in the backyard! Recently released from prison for bank robbery, it looks like he returned to dig up the stolen money-but someone killed him and took the loot. Was it his partners in crime, whose names he never divulged? Or maybe his cell mate who was also recently released? Carrie may be busy with her wedding plans and dealing with reactions to her article, but that won't stop her from trying to help police solve the murder before her wedding bells chime.

 

It's sad that this is the final book in the Haunted Library Mystery series. Carrie has grown in so many ways since she arrived in Clover Ridge and it's been a delight witnessing it. The series winds things up nicely, though I was looking forward to seeing them in their new house.

 

The characters and their relationships have always been the foundation of this series and it's no exception in BOOKED ON MURDER. Even the relationship between the secondary characters new to this book is significant. I love the relationship between Carrie and Dylan. They truly "get" each other and it's fun watching them work together, even if it's solving a crime on their wedding day! Seeing their friends and family gather together in celebration was delightful.

The eighth Haunted Library Mystery has three major components, though they do all intermingle. There's the murder, the diary, and the wedding. The mystery was compelling, the diary intriguing, and the wedding heartwarming. Blended together it made for a satisfying conclusion to a wonderful series.

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 Booked on Murder (A Haunted Library Mystery) by Allison Brook

About Booked on Murder

Booked on Murder (A Haunted Library Mystery)
Cozy Mystery 8th in Series
Setting - Connecticut
Publisher: ‎ Crooked Lane Books (August 6, 2024)
Hardcover: ‎ 304 pages

Librarian Carrie Singleton must catch a killer before she can say “I do” in the 8th delightful installment in Agatha Award-nominee Allison Brook’s Haunted Library mystery series.

Carrie Singleton is ready to kiss the single life goodbye. Her wedding to Dylan Avery is just a few weeks away, and a happy ending is about to be hers. But when a body is found on the lawn of their wedding venue, happily-ever-after is looking deadlier than ever.

The victim turns out to be Billy Carpenter, a young man recently released from prison after serving time for a bank robbery. The stolen money he’d buried is gone and Carrie and the police suspect Billy’s two alleged co-conspirators, his friends Luke Rizzo and Tino Valdez. But then Luke is murdered and Tino is nowhere to be found.

With no leads and only a week to go before her big day, Carrie is on the hunt for clues. She hopes to wrap up this investigation with a neat bow before she and Dylan tie the knot. Carrie has something old, something new, and something borrowed ready for her walk down the aisle. Now she needs to find the killer without becoming the ‘something blue.’

About Allison Brook

A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and novels for kids. Her books have received many accolades. As Allison Brook, she writes the Haunted Library series. Death Overdue, the first in the series, was an Agatha nominee for Best Contemporary Novel in 2018. Other mysteries include the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series, the Twin Lakes series, and Giving Up the Ghost. Her romantic suspense, Come Home to Death, was released on April 30, 2024, and her romantic suspense, Dangerous Relations, will be republished in 2025.

Marilyn's juvenile novel, Rufus and Magic Run Amok, was an International Reading Association-Children's Book Council Children's Choice and recently appeared in a new edition. And Don't Bring Jeremy was a nominee for six state awards. Her YA horror, The Devil's Pawn, came out in a new edition in January 2024.

Marilyn lives on Long Island, where many of her books take place. She loves traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku, chatting on FaceTime with her grandkids, and playing with her kittens, Romeo and Juliet.

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