Murder in the Margins: 1 (The Open Book Mysteries)

Author: Loudon, Margaret

Brand: Berkley

Color: Multicolor

Binding: mass_market

Format: Import

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 27-10-2020

Part Number: 38628442

Details: Product Description
The plot thickens for American gothic writer Penelope Parish when a murder near her quaint British bookshop reveals a novel's worth of killer characters.

Penelope Parish has hit a streak of bad luck, including a severe case of writer's block that is threatening her sophomore book. Hoping a writer in residence position at The Open Book bookstore in Upper Chumley-on-Stoke, England, will shake the cobwebs loose, Pen, as she's affectionately known, packs her typewriter and heads across the pond.

Unfortunately, life in Chumley is far from quiet and when the chairwoman of the local Worthington Fest is found dead, fingers are pointed at Charlotte Davenport, an American romance novelist and the future Duchess of Worthington. Charlotte turns to the one person who might be her ally for help: fellow American Pen. Teaming up with bookstore owner Mabel Morris and her new friend Figgy, Pen sets out to learn the truth and find the tricks that will help her finish her novel.
Review
“You won’t want to miss new amateur sleuth Penelope Parish as she travels across the pond to the Open Book Bookstore in Merrie Old England. Margaret Louden has penned an irresistible cozy mystery that will delight your imagination and introduce you to a cast of interesting and quirky characters.”—Paige Shelton,
New York Times bestselling author

“A bookshop, lots of tea, a pub, and an English village filled with quirky characters—Margaret Loudon’s
Murder in the Margins has all the ingredients for a delightful read!—Marty Wingate,
USA Today bestselling author of
The
Bodies in the Library"Book stores and tea rooms and castles in England. Village fetes, charming police officers, and handsome aristocrats. Tea and Cornish pasties and fairy cakes.  A town named Chumley-on-Stoke. Plus a writer struggling with writers block. What’s not to like in this absolutely delightful new series by Margaret Loudon? I can't wait to see what Pen Parish and her friends at The Open Book get up to next.”—Vicki Delany, author of
Silent Night, Deadly Night
"A lively series debut for an engaging heroine."—
Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Margaret Loudon is the national bestselling author of the Farmer's Daughter Mysteries, the Cranberry Cove Mysteries, and the Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries, written under the name Peg Cochran. She also wrote the Sweet Nothings Lingerie Mysteries under the name Meg London.
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One
 
If Penelope "Pen" Parish had known how useless a master's degree in Gothic literature would turn out to be, she would have opted for something more practical instead-like accounting or mortuary science. After keeping herself somewhat afloat for several years with a hodgepodge of temporary jobs like waitressing and data entry, she'd hit upon a solution.
 
Instead of studying other authors' Gothic novels, she would write one of her own.
 
She'd subsequently spent every bit of her spare time in her attic garret-okay, a fifth-floor walk-up with drafty windows-with her fingers on the keys of her used laptop, surrounded by empty takeout containers, channeling her favorite Gothic authors-Mary Shelley, the Bront‘s, and Ann Radcliffe. By adding a touch of horror ˆ la Stephen King, she had managed to produce a book the critics called a "unique, fresh twist on the classic Gothic novel."
 
You could have knocked her over with a feather when The Lady of the Moors became a bestseller.
 
And therein lies the rub, as Hamlet opined.
 
Publishers have a habit of expecting their authors to follow up one bestseller with another. And Penelope Parish was suffering from a terrible case of writer's block.
 
She thought of that old saying, "Be careful what you wish for." The truth of that old saw had certainly hit home. She'd done her share of wishing as she'd slogged through her first manuscript-and there were entire days if not weeks when it was definitely a slog. She'd dreamed of all the thin

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