Crime and Poetry: A Magical Bookshop Mystery #1-Amanda Flowers

 

From Amanda Flower—who writes the national bestselling Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries as Isabella Alan—comes the first in the new Magical Bookshop Mystery series.

Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother’s bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect health. Violet doesn’t need to read between the lines: her grandma wants Violet back home and working in her magical store, Charming Books. It’s where the perfect book tends to fly off the shelf and pick you...

Violet has every intention to hightail it back to Chicago, but then a dead man is discovered clutching a volume of Emily Dickinson’s poems from Grandma Daisy’s shop. The victim is Benedict Raisin, who recently put Grandma Daisy in his will, making her a prime suspect. Now, with the help of a tuxedo cat named Emerson, Violet will have to find a killer to keep Grandma from getting booked for good...

My Take:

This is the first book that I've read by Amanda Flower and I have really been missing out on a fantastic author. This book combined everything that I love in a book. It had mystery, magic, and a wonderful bookshop that is nothing like you would expect. Violet is a fantastic main character and she finds herself dragged into the middle of a murder mystery when she returns home to Cascade Springs. This book will have you believing in magic and and that power that comes from all books. I look forward to reading many more from this author.