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Murder is easy-on paper.
Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the world- renowned Book Fair when her ex Kyle shows up with a bombshell. He has an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history-and humiliate the beloved British monarchy.
When Kyle turns up dead, the police are convinced Brooklyn's the culprit. But with an entire convention of suspects, Brooklyn's conducting her own investigation to find out if the motive for murder was a 200-year-old secret-or something much more personal.
Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the world- renowned Book Fair when her ex Kyle shows up with a bombshell. He has an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history-and humiliate the beloved British monarchy.
When Kyle turns up dead, the police are convinced Brooklyn's the culprit. But with an entire convention of suspects, Brooklyn's conducting her own investigation to find out if the motive for murder was a 200-year-old secret-or something much more personal.
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4.3 out of 5 stars (26 customer reviews)
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast-paced mystery with a funny touch, Feb 5 2010
By Jenel "Book Lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: If Books Could Kill: A Bibliophile Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Kate Carlisle's second mystery novel is just as fabulous as the first! I loved it!In If Books Could Kill, rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright goes to Edinburgh, Scotland to attend the Book Fair. A friend approaches her with an incredible find, what could be a book of heretofore undiscovered poems by Robert Burns and proof of a scandal that will forever shatter the world's view of Scotland's poetic hero. Someone wants to stop Brooklyn from authenticating the find - enough to commit murder. As the last person to see the victim alive, Brooklyn is the prime suspect. Now, in a foreign country, she must evade the police and the killer - and oh yes, the freemasons who have vowed to protect Robert Burns's name at all costs.
Janet Evanovich is one of my favorite writers, and Kate Carlisle is right up there with her. She's even given Brooklyn a delicious romantic foil in British detective Derek Stone. (Think a James Bond who wants just one woman. Sigh!)
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
second in the Bibliophile mystery series, April 7 2010
By audrey - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: If Books Could Kill: A Bibliophile Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Brooklyn Wainwright, bookbinder, is beginning to get a complex. It seems that everywhere she goes she finds dead bodies, and Edinburgh's Book Fair is no exception. Picking up right where the first in the series (Homicide in Hardcover) left off, Brooklyn is attending the book fair, meeting up with old friends and finding new acquaintances, having a grand old time, when an old flame asks her to authenticate a book of unknown Robert Burns poems, signed by the poet and embroiling the British royal family is a salacious scandal. Before she can even get a decent look at the object, her friend is found dead, appropriately enough, on a ghost tour, and Brooklyn is the number one suspect. Could it be because one of her bookbinding tools is the murder weapon?Carlisle is a fine writer. The dialogue is natural, the narrative voice is a hoot, and the mystery is populated with lots of devious suspects, daunting detectives and a few silly Scots.
It's not necessary to have read the first in the series, but it does make the appearance of Wainwright's nutty parents more delicious, and adds depth to her romance with British agent Derek Stone. (No graphic scenes.)
This is a fun mystery in an interesting setting with a lively narrator and protagonist.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Why O Why?, May 31 2010
By Doc V - Published on Amazon.com
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The idea of a bookbinder qua accidental detective is very appealing to me.I really enjoyed the passages in which books were described and in fact anything having to do with books was written.
However, I didn't care for the style of the narrator's voice or the dialogues. It was too crisp and uncouth for me. The narrator describes herself as superficial at one point in the story and I have to admit she did seem a little superficial to me. She's a little flat and her thoughts seem detached from a profound personality, except, again when she describes books and the sights of Scotland.
If these linguistic quirks won't bother you then you might really enjoy the books in this series. The premise is great as is the general plot and the unraveling of this mystery.
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