Murder is Binding (A Booktown Mystery)

Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Set in a small New Hampshire, a dying town has been revitalized by the day-tourist trade when a quick thinking real estate business man decides to court and attract unquie and rare booksellers to fill the vacant store fronts.

Housed at number 221 is the bookstore "Haven't Got a Clue", and mystery book store selling recent novels as well as rare and collectiable older books. Next door is "The Cookery", which has cooking demostrations and sells new and collectible cookbooks.

Trish owns "Haven't Got a Clue" and Doris owns "The Cookery". No one would call them friends, but Trish tries. Bob Kelly is the real estate agent that lured all the booksellers to town, but he is not everyone's favorite person, in fact most people either love him or hate him. Trish's enstranged sister shows up in and town, and they find Doris dead in her shop next door!

Trish becomes the prime suspect, in fact the Sheriff Wendy Adams takes an immediate dislike to Trish and decideds she did it, and isn't even bothering to look at other people. In fact throughout the book, any time Trish tries to tell her something she observed or heard, the Sheriff threatens to arrest her for libel. So Trish does what she can and investigates herself!

This was a fun read. The characters were well written and you were really able to understand them and felt for them. It was difficult to figure out the murderer, there were just so many people that had motive and wanted Doris dead.

There are even some recipes in the back of the book.




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