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Murders and metaphors [text (large print)] / by Amanda Flower.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Magical Bookshop mystery ; 3Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: 417 pages (large print) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432865214
  • 1432865218
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS3606.L683 M875 2019
Summary: "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. This is part of "A Magical Bookshop Mystery" series."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Sequel to: Prose and cons.

"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. This is part of "A Magical Bookshop Mystery" series."-- Provided by publisher.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

Flower graduates to hardcover with her charming third Magical Bookshop mystery (after 2016's Prose and Cons). Violet Waverly, proprietor of Charming Books in Cascade Springs, N.Y., is one of a roomful of witnesses when wine connoisseur Belinda Perkins storms off after her estranged sister Lacey Dupont's attempt at reconciliation during Belinda's return home for a wintertime book signing at Morton Wineries. Moments later, Violet finds Belinda stabbed to death with one of the knives used for the night's planned cutting of the ice wine grapes. Even though Lacey's presence makes her immediately suspect, Violet learns all three Perkins siblings had motives for offing Belinda. The bookstore's magical essence keeps feeding Violet clues, but making sense of them is complicated and time-consuming. Violet's budding love interest, police chief David Rainwater, doesn't want to see her in danger, but she realizes that their romance is doomed unless she's ready to trust him with her family's secrets concerning the bookshop and the mystic powers of the spring waters. Cozy fans will be well satisfied. Agent: Nicole Resciniti, Seymour Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Book Review

An upstate New York family's long-held secret helps solve yet another murder.Perhaps the single most unusual feature of the Niagara region's Charming Books, which Violet Waverly and her grandmother Daisy own, is the 200-year-old birch tree growing in a large skylit room in the center of the shop, which must be watered from a magical spring deep in the nearby woods. But there's much more. A second unusual feature is Faulkner, the shop's domesticated talking crow. A third is the shop's ability to create whatever book someone wants and provide literary hints that help solve crimes. Now Violet's closely guarded secret is playing havoc with her love life. The bookshop has become involved with Morton Vineyards' promotion for Belinda Perkins' newest wine book. On the night of the book signing, Violet stumbles over the body of Belinda, a make-or-break wine critic whose many enemies included her two sisters, in the vineyard where a crowd has gathered to pick the frozen grapes for Morton's famous ice wine. The loud argument Violet's closest friend, Lacey, had with her sister Belinda at the book signing makes her the leading suspect. Violet, who's currently dating Police Chief David Rainwater, knows how it feels to be falsely accused. So she sets out to prove her friend innocent with help from Charming Books, where every book she picks up becomes Little Women, forcing her to reread Alcott's novel, looking for clues that will keep Lacey out of jail and unmask the real killer.The master of the charming mystical cozy (Pros and Cons, 2016) once again provides plenty of quirky characters and red herrings to keep you guessing. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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