The Grim Reader The Grim Reader

Publisher Description

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend at a local book fair, but a murderer made other plans in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series.

Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma’s first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn’s mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event related duties, she’s got Brooklyn doing rare book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, the musical to delight the festival goers. If that wasn’t enough, she and Meg—Derek’s mom—will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards.

Brooklyn couldn’t be prouder of her mom’s do-it-all attitude so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air. 
Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn’s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2020
June 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Shbth ,

Wonderful mystery

I look forward to reading books by this author, Kate Carlisle, and I love the Brooklyn Wainwright character. The opinions in this review are my own. I love the characters and friends that support Brooklyn and the storylines Carlisle writes for them all. This book is just as enjoyable as the others in this series. The book made me feel like being at home while also escaping from my real home, the real world, which many of us might need in these pandemic times. I enjoyed seeing many characters we already know as well as being introduced to some new characters. I found myself identifying with a lot of the feelings Brooklyn and Derek experience and share as they go through the story of this book. The plot was well written and well paced. I found myself surprised at many places where I thought I could feel where it was going. I would recommend this book to other readers.

Cafffree ,

Wonderful!

This book is wonderfully written and the characters are very well thought out. I loved every minute of reading it!! It was a page turner and I could hardly put it down because I needed to know “who done it”! I loved the fact I couldn’t guess who the killer was until it was revealed at the end and that it was set at a Book Fair. I’ve never been to a Book Fair, but now I REALLY want to find one! I also love the relationship between Brooklyn and Derek and also with their families. Really...such a great, great book!!!!

bronte6382 ,

Anything But Grim

The Grim Reader is the latest installment in Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile Mystery series. I personally love this series. The recurring characters and the fresh storyline takes the reader on a journey through rare books, tasty food, good wine and murder.
Intrepid book conservator, Brooklyn Wainwright and her husband Derek, an ex-MI-6 agent are back in Dharma to help kick off the first annual book festival featuring Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. When one of the festival committee members ends up dead it is up to Brooklyn and Derek to catch the killer before he or she strikes again.
This is a fun and suspenseful mystery with some yummy recipes. It would be an excellent selection for book clubs to try.

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