Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Verse and Vengeance
Verse and Vengeance: A Magical Bookshop Mystery | Amanda Flower
5 posts | 5 read | 1 to read
USA Today bestselling author and Agatha Award winner Amanda Flower turns the charm up to ten in her fourth Magical Bookshop mystery. With the help of Walt Whitman's works, magical bookshop owner Violet Waverly puts her pedal to the metal to sleuth a bicycle-race murder that tests her mettle. A bicycle race is not Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's idea of a pleasant pastime. But police chief David Rainwater wheelie wants them to enter the Tour de Cascade as a couple, so she reluctantly consents. The Tour de Cascade is the brainchild of Violet's Grandma Daisy. The race is a fundraiser to build the Cascade Springs Underground Railroad Museum. But not everyone in this Niagara Region village supports the race. As if the bike race weren't tiring enough, pesky private investigator Joel Redding is snooping around Charming Books. It takes all of Violet's and Grandma Daisy's ingenuity to keep Redding from discovering the shop's magical essence--which communicates with Violet through books. When Redding perishes in an accident during the race, David discovers that the brake line of the private eye's bike was cut. Worse, Violet tops his list of suspects. As Emerson the tuxedo cat and resident crow Faulkner look on, Charming Books steers Violet to the works of Walt Whitman to solve the crime. But no other names ring a bell as culprits, and as David's investigation picks up speed, Violet will have to get in gear to clear her name.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
MissyD
post image
Pickpick

Book 4 in the magical bookshop mystery series. Ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. Soo of course i jumped into the last one in the series. 🤣. Book 16 of the year

emz711 16! Wow! 9mo
12 likes1 comment
review
KathyWheeler
post image
Pickpick

Okay — I never, not even once, suspected the murderer in this book. I can‘t tell if it‘s because I‘m dense (this is often true) or because the reveal really did come out of thin air. Nevertheless, I did like this book, and we got further development of the Violet/Rainwater relationship.

blurb
KathyWheeler
post image

Should be done with this soon. I‘ve had a long day. Got up at 5:00am, then went for a walk, then had to participate in and present at a staff professional development day. I‘m worn out and will probably be asleep soon. #audiowalk

blurb
KathyWheeler
post image

I like the Magical Bookshop cozy mystery series, so when this showed up in Hoopla, I grabbed it and made it my new walking book. This time Violet is dealing with issues surrounding her father as well as the murder of a private detective she knew. #audiowalk

review
SW-T
post image
Pickpick

A private detective who threatened to find out the secret of the bookshop and expose it has returned to town. When he turns up dead, Violet is both relieved and scared. Who else knows and who killed him? She has to decide whether or not she trusts David, her boyfriend and the police chief, with the secret the women in her family have kept for generations. A store raven, a magical bookstore, and a mischievous cat make this an enjoyable series.