The Grim Reader

By: Kate Carlisle

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Brooklyn and her hunky new husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma’s first annual book festival. The entire town is involved, and Brooklyn’s mom, Rebecca, is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event-related duties, she’s got Brooklyn doing rare-book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, a musical to delight the festival-goers. If that wasn’t enough, she and Meg - Derek’s mom - will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards.

Brooklyn couldn’t be more proud of her mom’s do-it-all attitude, so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air.

Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn’s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode, and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.

©2020 Kate Carlisle (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

woke

This book could not have been more politically correct. The stories are great, the narrator's giggle outstanding.

This isn’t Harry Potter 🙄

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I got hooked on this series randomly checking out a mystery book at the library. That was book 12. I couldn’t put them down! This book however was a struggle. I didn’t enjoy the crystal/witch/yada yada part of it. We get it. You like witches. I don’t agree with the lifestyle but that is me. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t love it shoved down my throat in a book. 🙄 Her mom and Meg are lovable just as they are, I don’t need to hear about cleansing practices. I already loved her when she was seen in previous books. -sigh- I’m leery about starting another as I’ve been buying them on audible. The plots are so engaging and interesting, and I love everything about the main character and her husband. The writing is great but this aspect was mention so freaking much. 😑 Again, personal preference you can take it or leave it.

ANOTHER BIBLIOPHILE MYSTER6

Every once in a while Audible will miss a book in a series. So here's one to add to the Bibliophile series. it's a fun read that continues the series and characters through more adventures and books.

ANOTHER WINNER

I LOVE THIS SERIES, AND THIS BOOK DID NOT DISAPPOINT. BROOKLYN AND DEREK ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE COUPLES, BUT THE OTHER CHARACTERS ARE JUST AS ENTERTAINING. BECKY, GURU BOB, ALEX, GABRIEL, DEREK'S PARENTS, THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE ALL JUST DELIGHTFUL. IF YOU KNOW THE SERIES, YOU WILL APPRECIATE THE HUMOR IN THESE TWO STATEMENTS FROM BROOKLYN: "DETECTIVE LEE ALWAYS APPRECIATES MY INPUT" AND (SPOKEN TO DEREK AND GABE) "I'M THE MASTERMIND. YOU GUYS ARE JUST THE MUSCLE." HILARIOUS, FUN, TOUCHING, AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE ACTION. HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK AND SERIES!

It is scone, not scon, the o is long, gahhhhh

just another cozy mystery, light fluff, still enjoyable. But please, the word is scone, not scon as the narrator kept saying.