Secrets in the Stacks
Following her recovery from breast cancer, Rarity has embraced a life of healing and service in her Sedona, Arizona, community. She welcomes the opportunity to participate in the annual summer healing fair with her fittingly named new-age bookstore, The Next Chapter. The members of the Tuesday Night Survivors’ Book Club are also volunteering, maintaining a cooling station for overheated festivalgoers, and hosting a Tarot card reader for entertainment.
But one member, Darby, is anything but entertained when the Tarot reader pulls a Death card. With a mammogram coming up, she’s freaked out and goes home, only to walk into a crime scene where someone near and dear to her has been murdered. Despite the objections of Detective Drew Anderson, Rarity is determined to help her friend and protect her from being the killer’s next victim.
The Details
Series: A Survivor’s Book Club Mystery – Book #2
Author: Lynn Cahoon
Genre/Category: Cozy – Amateur Sleuth/Book Club
Publisher: Lyrical Underground
ISBN: 1516111168
Page Count: 188
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The Review
Secrets in the Stacks is the second book in the “A Survivor’s Book Club Mystery” series. Rarity, Darby, and The Next Chapter are back and better than ever. Readers will be thrilled with how far this series and the characters have come in this new installment. Rarity’s bookshop is still hosting the Tuesday Night Survivor’s Club, and murder is rearing its ugly head again. A tarot card reading sends Darby into hysterics when she gets the death card, and a murderer decides it’s time for someone to die.
The characters in this series, from Rarity to Darby to the other returning characters, make me smile. I love a good survivor’s story, and The Next Chapter is my idea of a heavenly bookstore. I did not like seeing Darby suffer, and if this were real life, I would punch her parents in the face for allowing their young daughter to go through a murder investigation, multiple break-ins, school, and work without them by her side. Luckily, she has the ladies from the book club to help her through it all. The book club members are not reluctant sleuths. They are efficient, eager, have access to a town full of rumor, gossip, history, personal data, and they leverage it all to help solve this murder quickly.
The town of Sedona is legendary for its new-age spiritual community and is a wonderful backdrop for a cozy series. The Next Chapter is ideal for sleuthing and info gathering. The victim is only known by a few of the book club members, but she is beloved by all those who knew her. Even though Rarity never got the chance to meet her, she feels as though a member of her own family was killed. Darby, unfortunately, ends up being the number one suspect and is heartbroken at the same time. The suspects are all believable, and the motive, once discovered, makes perfect sense. Secrets in the Stacks has enough action to keep the story moving without being all over the place. I think readers will find this book, the characters, and the plot hard to resist, but then again… why would you?
The Author
Lynn Cahoon is an Idaho ex-pat. She grew up living the small-town life she now loves to write about. Lynn started her career writing sweet contemporary romances with heroes ranging from cowboys to warlocks. An over ten-year breast cancer survivor, she lives with her husband and two fur babies in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi River, where her imagination tends to wander.
Readers will enjoy the first book in this series, Tuesday Night Survivor’s Club, or another series by this author, from the “A Tourist Trap Mystery” series, Memories and Murder.
Lynn is Represented by: The Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
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