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Once upon a seaside murder / Maggie Blackburn.

Summary:
There's no place like home for the holidays, even if home is sleepy, beachside Brigid's Island, NC. During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers--and Beach Reads is no exception. But bookseller Summer Merriwether's Christmas cheer turns to cringing fear when she uncovers a deadly secret about her late mother--a secret someone will kill to keep. When the local library hosts a cozy mystery panel discussion, Summer learns that one of the authors on the panel based her book on an actual murder that shook Brigid's Island thirty-five years before. Worse, she soon learns that her dearly missed mother, Hildy, took a disturbingly deep interest in the case, going so far as to collect clippings and keep a journal of the dark doings. This doesn't jibe with Summer's memories of her usually cheery mother at all. Tidings get worse when Summer learns of her long-lost biological family's involvement in the crime...and still worse when the life of the book's author is threatened. With the help of Hildy's plucky book club, Summer puts her scholarly smarts to work on protecting the cozy author and solving the decades-old murder. But this ghost from Christmas past may still be deadly in the present, and if she can't find the killer, Summer's future will be brief.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643858326
  • Physical Description: 329 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Crooked Lane Books, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes recipes.
Subject: Bookstores > Fiction.
Women booksellers > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Christmas stories.
North Carolina > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery stories.
Christmas fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Cozy mysteries.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Christmas fiction.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Altoona Area Public Library F BLA (Text) 33240004965243 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library MYSTERY Bla (Text) 85131001876862 CACM Mystery Available -
Coudersport Public Library FIC BLA (Text) 30183000967990 Adult Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Mystery Blackburn (Text) 39427103636569 Fiction Room: Adult Mystery Available -
Meyersdale Public Library FIC BLACKBURN (Text) 30512005407141 MEYM Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Mystery Blackburn (Text) 33223008719543 Mystery Available -


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