A Page Marked for Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #5) by Lauren Elliott #bookreview #mystery
Title: A Page Marked for Murder
Author: Lauren Elliott
Publisher: Kensington Books
Publication Date: October 27, 2020
Page Count: 306
My rating: 4 stars
About the book:
A murder and a missing book have Addie Greyborne running around her Massachusetts town trying to read the clues . . .
January isn’t the season for the seaside, but the big Fire and Ice festival is keeping bookstore owner Addie busy. Amid the plans for a fireworks display and an ice-carving competition, she’s also dog sitting for a friend in the hospital. When Addie goes to her friend’s house to gather supplies, she notices an interesting item on the nightstand which belongs to her shop assistant, Paige: a very valuable copy of the beloved children’s book The Secret Garden.
But Addie’s blood runs cold when she finds something else: a dead body behind the bakery next door to her shop. Martha, the bakery owner, has no alibi—and has been seen in a heated argument with the victim. And the next thing Addie knows, that first edition has gone missing. Is there a connection between the body and the treasured tome? If there is, it’s up to Addie to find a killer with a motive as hidden as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s famous garden . . .
A Page Marked for Murder by Lauren Elliott is the fifth book of the cozy Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series. Each book of this series contains it’s own mystery to solve so they could be read as a standalone or in any order. However, one would get to know the characters better reading the series in order with some character development carrying over book to book.
In the first book of this series, Murder by the Book, readers were introduced to Addison Greyborne who had returned to her hometown, a small New England town that had been named for her ancestors back in Colonial times, Greyborne Harbor. Addie had been still recovering from the murder of her fiance, her father dying in a tragic accident and then had found out a long lost aunt had also died but left her whole estate to Addie.
Addie’s inheritance had given her the opportunity to start over and continue to work with books after leaving her job at the Boston Public Library. With her aunt having so many rare books in her collection and the funds to open a shop Addie decided to open Beyond the Page bookstore. Now as Addie finds she is fitting into the town better each day she finds herself dogsitting when a friend is injured. However, as usual for Addie she ends up finding another dead body, this time behind the shops and when her friend is arrested Addie is determined to find another killer.
I have been following the Beyond the Page Bookstore series from the beginning and it isn’t quite as quirky and humorous as I normally prefer but I have still enjoyed reading. The books started off feeling like it had a touch of romantic suspense to it as Addie got close to the police chief and worked together instead of completely on her own in most cozies but she’s more independent now as the series has gone on and the books have fallen more and more into the humorous cozy vibe. With each book that I read I become more attached to Addie and her small town mysteries.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
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I already have this series in my tbr thanks to you Carrie. I love the cover for this.🥰
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It was a nice Christmasy edition to the series I picked up to mentally cool off with the hot temps lately.🙂
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I also enjoy this series Carrie and also gave this one 4 stars. Addie is a great protagonist and I really like her as well.
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Glad you are enjoying these too Carla! I snuck this one in for at least one Christmas in July read and to start getting caught up on this series.🙂
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