The first book in the terrific Antiques & Collectibles series by New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams.
In the world of antiques and collectibles, it helps to have a sharp eye for quality, a good ear for gossip, and a nose for murder.
Molly Appleby is a young writer for Collector’s Weekly, and when the attractive reporter isn’t covering auctions and antique shows all over the … auctions and antique shows all over the South, she’s trying to get her new relationship with a coworker off the ground. When her latest assignment takes her to North Carolina pottery country to cover an exclusive kiln opening, she’s certain the show promises surprising offerings and rare finds. What she doesn’t expect to find is a dead body.
George-Bradley Staunton is known throughout the antiques world as a very wealthy and very ruthless collector, and when he drops dead just after the opening, there are all too few mourners and a seemingly endless list of suspects. When the local police are stumped, Molly steps in to put her journalist’s nose to work sniffing out the culprit. But no sooner does she start collecting clues than another dead body falls into her lap.
As Molly digs beneath the genteel surface of antiques and collectibles, she finds a world filled with backstabbing and competition, and what started as a story about rare collections might leave Molly with nothing more than a collection of corpses.
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Love Molly and learned a lot about antiques because of this series.
When an obnoxious collector dies at a kiln opening, art reporter Molly Appleby smells something fishy. The plot moves slowly, the characters were paper thin, and I hated the ending. Other then that, I loved it.
southern-pottery, magazine-reporter, family-dynamics, relationships, teaching, cozy-mystery****
For me the best thing about this book was learning about Southern Pottery making. The collecting aspect is the focus in this cozy as well as the interactions between various collectors–this is the basis for the murder. The characters seemed rather …
What a wonderful start to a new series. Being an avid collection adventurer myself I could not resist.
I have been to open art studios but never a kiln opening.
Set in the backroads of North Carolina and the world of hand made pottery, this mystery was a behind the scenes look at both the potters and the big money world of collectors.
The greed …
I check this ebook out from the library and really enjoyed it. It is a great fast read and once started really hard to stop.
The first book in the Collectible Mystery Series and it definitely has me intrigued. I like the main character as she is perfectly imperfect with a normal size body and view of life with intellect and wit to help seek the solution to the crime. I really liked the character development with each supporting character bringing a different personality …
Quirky and I like quirky. This novel read differently than her Books by the Bay and Book Retreat series but I think that is good. It shows the wide range in which Ms. Adams is able to write.
I had very limited knowledge regarding pottery before reading this novel and honestly did not care to but found myself very interested in pottery by the end …