To the Tome of Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #7) by Lauren Elliott #bookreview #mystery

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Title: To the Tome of Murder

Author:  Lauren Elliott

Publisher: Kensington Cozies

Publication Date: October 26, 2021

Page Count:  291

My rating: 4 stars

About the book:

Three weeks before Thanksgiving, bookshop owner Addie Greyborne already has a full plate—and a killer on her case . . .
 
Addie’s determined to turn a seemingly ordinary November in coastal Greyborne Harbor into one for the books. The windows of her shop display carefully curated works by American writers, including a rare selection of traditional holiday recipes from the influential 19th-century publication Godey’s Ladies Magazine. And then there’s the town’s Civil War-era themed cooking and baking competition, with a hefty cash prize and free publicity going to the winning dish . . .
 
But when she finds her cousin’s boyfriend murdered, a stunned Addie reluctantly realizes she may be the only person who can blow the cover off a grisly crime. With so many unanswered questions surrounding the victim’s death, Addie must figure out the strange connection between a mysterious vintage briefcase, the disappearance of a first edition copy of Sarah Josepha Hale’s famous nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” and a dangerously well-read culprit . . . 

To the Tome of Murder by Lauren Elliott is the seventh book in the cozy Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series. Each book of this series contains it’s own mystery to solve so they can be read as a standalone or in any order if choosing to do so. Of course there is some character development that carries over from book to book for those that follow the series from the beginning.

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 is preparing for Thanksgiving that is quickly approaching she stumbles into yet another murder. Addie is the one that finds her cousin’s boyfriend murdered and with a rare edition book as part of the clues Addie feels she may be again the only one to be able to track down the murderer.

I have been following the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series from the beginning and enjoy each trip back to Greyborne Harbor. I wouldn’t say this series is quite as humorous and over the top quirky as some I enjoy but being an avid reader I love the main character’s knowledge of books and that books are involved yet again in another mystery. Of course there’s yet another twisty murder plot to follow and that always keeps the pages turning too.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Lauren Elliott is the USA Today bestselling author of the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery Series. She grew up devouring Nancy Drew, graduated to Agatha Christie, and then began writing her own mysteries, as well as bringing her passion for storytelling to careers in professional theater and journalism. She can be found online at LaurenElliottAuthor.com.