Victoria Gilbert
Author
Publisher
CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a young woman goes missing during a spring bonfire, library director Amy Webber must wade through the web of lies entangling her small Virginia town
Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert....
Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-Breakfast is a reader's paradise. Built in 1770, the newly renovated inn hosts a roster of special events celebrating books, genres, and authors. It's the perfect literary retreat--until a rare book dealer turns up dead in the carriage house during a celebration of Golden Age mystery author Josephine Tey. The victim's daughter points the finger at forty-two-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy Webber and her new husband Richard Muir are settling into married life--and a new project. Richard is choreographing a suite based on folk music and tales, while Amy scours the library's resources for background information on the dance's source material. But the mellifluous music comes to a halt when an unknown woman's body turns up in Zelda Shoemaker's backyard gazebo. Chief Deputy Brad Tucker puts Zelda at the top of his suspect list, thanks...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the 'flower children' when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune. Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend 'Sunny' Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate's closet. Sunny's grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children's literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she's fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole. The victim--an opinionated busybody whose jewelry store sold original designs, along with some possibly 'hot' merchandise--had plenty...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beaufort, North Carolina. Charlotte Reed's historic 18th-century inn draws in voracious readers from far and wide with its special events. This July weekend, a visit by one of the biggest names in romantic fantasy attracts throngs of admirers to the quaint coastal village. She's have a "Tea and Talk" meet-and-greet at the B&B celebrating her bestselling series, followed by a quick book signing at Bookwaves, the hip indie bookstore across town. When...
Author
Series
Hunter and Clewe mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about to discover, a retiree's life can bring new thrills--and new dangers. Cameron "Cam" Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something--an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts. Jane's thrilled...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the chair of Taylorsford's first Winterfest is murdered and her brother-in-law is the prime suspect, library director Amy Muir must race against time to prove his innocence before another life is claimed by a killer who's on Santa's naughty list.