A Margin for Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #8) by Lauren Elliott #bookreview #mystery

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Title: A Margin for Murder

Author:  Lauren Elliott

Publisher: Kensington Cozies

Publication Date: April 26, 2022

Page Count:  322

My rating: 4 stars

About the book:

In the riveting new mystery from the USA Today bestselling author, a murder and a missing first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses send rare bookstore owner Addie Greyborne on an investigation to challenge even the most distinguished of bibliophiles…

Addie leaves her Greyborne Harbor bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios, in the capable hands of her assistant while she travels to bookmobile to attend a book sale at a library that is closing due to lack of funding. But the real find is a bookmobile bus, which she’s excited to refit as a traveling bookstore to hit all the summer festivals. The bookmobile also holds a surprising treasure: several classic first editions and an early edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses.
 
But before the bookmobile can be delivered to Addie, a fatal car crash occurs. When an autopsy reveals poison in the victim’s system and the first editions go missing, it’s up to Addie to determine what would drive someone to murder. If she’s not careful, however, she may be the next one to be dead on arrival . . .

A Margin for Murder by Lauren Elliott is the eighth book in the cozy Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series. Each book of this series contains it’s own mystery that will be solved 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 Addie has left the bookstore in the hands of her assistant as she heads to Pen Hollow for a huge book sale. While the books were the pull to the sale Addie finds something even better to buy, a bookmobile. However, just after purchase the bookmobile is involved in an accident which unfortunately leads to another murder to investigate before Addie is allowed to leave town and return home.

The Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series is another cozy series that i have followed from the beginning and enjoy each trip back to Greyborne Harbor. This series is definitely one for readers with each new edition involving books and the main character’s extensive knowledge of them. I wouldn’t say this one is the normal over the top quirky and humorous type that I usually get hooked on but there are a few laughs and a great murder mystery in each new installment of the series to keep me returning again and again.

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.