From Publishers Weekly
London antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare isn't too surprised when a valued customer's check bounces in Marianne MacDonald's baffling Die Once: A Dido Hoare Mystery; she'd seen the newspaper notice saying he'd jumped to his death from the balcony of his flat. Dido sets out to prove her customer was no suicide in a tangled yarn with special appeal to book-collecting fans.
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From Booklist
London antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare's retired professor father, Barnabas, says of her, "Dido is extremely persistent, and rather a loose cannon," which sums up this attractive series nicely. Dido lives above her shop with her boy, Ben, and her cat, Mr. Spock. When a regular customer, Tim Curwen, is declared a suicide, and his latest check bounces, Dido is hired by his solicitors to estimate the worth of his books. But all the ones she's sold him seem to have vanished from his flat, except for the Dickens whose payment bounced. After talking with a reporter friend of Tim's and a police contact of her own, Dido learns more about her customer: Tim was gay, mixed up in the drug trade, and may have a sister. Along with her sleuthing, Dido acquires a new computer, sells some books, grabs the odd takeaway meal, and tries to keep Barnabas off her case. A few loose ends matter little, and the denouement resembles life in its untidiness.
GraceAnne DeCandidoCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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