Black Cat Bookshop Mystery (5 books in series)

Read Humane Double Booked for Death (2013)
language
English
author
3.67 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: This is the first in a series of mysteries set in a bookshop in Brooklyn. I want to work at that bookshop and live in one of the cool brownstones on that street. I'm not going to say that this is the most baffling mystery story I've ever read, it's not the scariest -- but it's ...
Double-Booked for Death (2011)
language
English
author
3.67 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: A lighthearted mystery with a minimal amount of blood and gore. Cute, if not predictable at times. This story could have been set anywhere, so I don't know why the author chose New York - a city she obviously doesn't know geographically or culturally. At one point, some young ...
A Novel Way to Die (2012)
language
English
author
3.9 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: I found that I liked this 2nd book much better than the first. As a result, yesterday I bought the 3rd book in the series during a jaunt to B&N. One thing I did not like was the editing in the book. Several times words were missing, repeated, or just not the right word in the ...
Words With Fiends (2013)
language
English
author
3.86 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: Darla is still running her Brooklyn bookstore, but she's also learning martial arts (along with her young employee Robert) at the dojo in the neighborhood. When she and Robert discover a body, she can't help but be suspicious of some of the people she knows, even though not-a-bo...
Literally Murder (2014)
language
English
author
3.74 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: In the previous novel, Hamlet, the bookstore cat, had stowed away when Darla Pettistone, the bookstore owner, went to compete in a martial arts tournament. When she did her part in the tournament, Hamlet was behind her making the same moves she did without her knowledge. This bei...