She Stopped for Death
A Little Library Mystery
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Only poetry can set the truth free in Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli's charming Emily Dickinson inspired second Little Library mystery
Jenny Weston and her mother, Dora, have been receiving strange midnight visits. Bear Falls's own elusive and highly secretive poet, Emily Sutton, has lived her life cloistered away with her sister in a house at the edge of Pewee Swamp. But now, Emily's started leaving scraps of poetry in Dora's Little Library, and Dora makes it her mission to befriend the sheltered woman.
Meanwhile Zoe Zola, almost famous author and the Weston's quirky next-door neighbor, is hard at work on a new book, this one about the inner life of Emily Dickinson. And once again, Zoe's literary work starts making uncanny connections with the events in her own world as Emily Sutton reemerges into society. But Zoe begins to suspect things aren't anywhere near normal at Emily's swamp house or in the lives of the people she claims have abandoned her...until looking further into the poet's half-truths leads Zoe and Jenny to a horrible murder.
The chaos surrounding the ensuing investigation grows even more hectic with Emily's increasingly erratic behavior, the arrival of a young woman searching for her missing poet uncle, and yet another betrayal in Jenny's love life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
References to Emily Dickinson and other classic authors lift Buzzelli's suspenseful sequel to 2016's A Most Curious Murder. Dora Weston, along with her newly divorced daughter, Jenny Weston, and their colorful author neighbor, Zoe Zola, are curious when a mysterious figure visits Dora's Little Library in Bear Falls, Mich., late at night. Poems left at the Little Library point to the identity of the nocturnal patron: the town's seldom seen but celebrated poet, Emily Sutton, who lives near a swamp. When the women finally speak with the skittish Emily, they are disconcerted to learn of the unexplained absence of Emily's cousin and regular errand runner, Althea, and Emily's sister, Lorna. Puzzled by Emily's strange behavior, the disappearance of another poet who knew Emily, a long-ago fire that took the life of Emily's mother, and other clues that don't add up, Jenny and Zoe follow a trail to a grisly discovery. A riveting climax will have readers on the edge of their seats.
