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New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams is back with the latest in her acclaimed Secret, Book, and Scone Society series. Local bookstore owner Nora Pennington is back on the case in Miracle Springs, North Carolina when an accidental death turns out to be something much more sinister...
Synopsis:
Nora Pennington is known for her window displays, and as Halloween approaches, she decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl\"s Matilda and Madeline Miller\"s Circe. A family-values group disapproves of the magical themes, though, and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. Suddenly, former friends and customers are targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books, but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who\"s been selling CBD oil products.
Nora and her friends in the Secret, Book, and Scone Society are doing their best to put an end to the strife--but then someone puts an end to a life. Though the death is declared an accident, the ruling can\"t explain the old book page covered with strange symbols and disturbing drawings left under Nora\"s doormat, a postcard from an anonymous stalker, or multiple cases of vandalism.
The only hope is that Nora can be a heroine herself and lead the Secret, Book, and Scone Society in a successful investigation--before more bodies turn up and the secrets from Celeste\"s past come back to haunt them all . . .
Review:
I actually read this book at Halloween time and it was perfect timing. It\"s amazing how something so simple as a book to display can enrage a group of people bent on expressing their point of view and not allowing anyone else theirs. In greater oddity for timing, I had conversations with my 13-year-old about that same subject while reading the book, as we were discussing civil rights as part of her modern history class!
But the book is a perfect tale of small town life and how things can get out of hand very quickly by false information being spread around, and buy secrets and false appearances being kept. This is a quick read and quite enjoyable, and I will definitely be going back and reading the rest of the books in the series!
About the Author:
Ellery Adams is the New York Times bestselling author of two cookbooks and over thirty mysteries, including the Book Retreat Mysteries, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society series, the Books by the Bay Mysteries, and the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries. A native New Yorker, she has had a lifelong love affair with stories, food, rescue animals, and large bodies of water. When not working on her next novel, she reads, bakes, gardens, spoils her three cats, and rearranges her bookshelves. She lives with her husband and two children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For more information and lists of bibliotherapy suggestions, please visit ElleryAdamsMysteries.com
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