A Killer Read
For the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society, six friends gather in Molly Matthews's old Southern mansion-including Lizzie Turner, a reading specialist with a penchant for mysteries. But the mystery book club meeting becomes the scene of an actual murder...
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For the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society, six friends gather in Molly Matthews's old Southern mansion-including Lizzie Turner, a reading specialist with a penchant for mysteries. But the mystery book club meeting becomes the scene of an actual murder when a stranger is shot-and nobody knows who the victim is, or how Molly' antique gun came to be used as the murder weapon.Then Lizzie begins finding mysterious manuscript chapters in her mailbox. As she and the book club members try to read between the lines, Molly surfaces as the next name on the killer's list...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425247037 (0425247031)
ASIN: 425247031
Publish date: 2012-04-03
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Pages no: 294
Edition language: English
Series: An Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery (#1)
The word refreshing came to mind after finishing 'A Killer Read' by Erika Chase. The pace was on the slow side, but fit the small town feel as our sleuth Lizzie Turner, a reading specialist and her friends from Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society sort out clues on why a stra...
I'm not sure how I felt about this book - perhaps a tad ambivalent. The murder mystery was well developed, with good clues, red herrings, blind alleys, and a good conclusion. I appreciated the references throughout the book to other mystery writers too. I think my ambivalence stems from the char...