Peril in Paperback by Kate Carlisle

Peril in Paperback (Bibliophile Mystery, #6)

by Kate Carlisle

In this novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series, bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright takes a trip to Lake Tahoe and ends up at a killer party...

Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzie’s aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who’s turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house, full of everything from pinball machines and giant props to secret passageways and trap doors. Brooklyn is most excited to catalog Grace’s extensive collection of rare paperback pulp fiction.

Part of the fun involves a séance, but after the lights flicker, one guest is dead, poisoned by a cocktail intended for Grace. It seems someone is determined to turn Grace’s playful palatial estate into a house of horrors. Brooklyn suspects the key to the killer’s identity may lie in the roman á clef Grace has written about her life. With Grace in great peril, “must-read” takes on a whole new meaning, as Brooklyn tries to stop a murderer who’s through playing around…

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5 of 5 stars

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I put off reading this book as long as I could because this is my favorite series and I was practicing my delayed gratification skills. I think I made it 6 weeks, and then devoured the entire book in an afternoon.

Peril in Paperback is a fabulous, fun book and a really fun homage to the English House Mysteries. Derek wasn't much in this book at all, and I was prepared to sulk about that, but was very happily distracted by lots of Gabriel! Ms. Carlisle does a wonderful job of juggling the two men in a way that I find perfectly satisfying.

Brooklyn is the one character in all my books, I'd most like to be friends with - a brilliant sense of humour and snark, a fabulously eccentric family and possibly the best job in the universe. All the characters in this book are excellent and honestly I'm not afraid to admit that the fifth star in this book came purely from the absence of Minka. Really such a fun read.

The mystery itself was not only great fun, but included lots of suspects, lots of 'happenings', clues, secret passages and red herrings. While I had my guesses whittled down to one or two choices, I had no idea until the end. And the end! Such a great throwback to the classics! Loved it!!!!

Now I have to wait until stinking June of next year for the next book.

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