Murder is bad for business, especially when the hot local crime writer is garrotted between the shelves!With grudging permission from Heathcliff, Mina Wilde has transformed Nevermore Bookshop. She’s running author events, hosting Quoth’s art show, and using her creative flair to attract more customers. But when crime writer Danny Sledge is murdered moments before his writing workshop, the … writing workshop, the bookshop goes from bustling to broke.
No one in the village will set foot inside Nevermore. What if the murderer is targeting the bookshop? What if it’s connected to Mina’s father and the mysterious room? All Mina knows is that if she doesn’t solve the crime soon, she can kiss her livelihood goodbye.
Add in a plague of locusts, an emotional school visit, and a magical visitor from the past, and poor Mina has her work cut out for her. Luckily, she has Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth to help… that is – if they can keep their hands off her, or each other…
The Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries are what you get when all your book boyfriends come to life. Join a brooding antihero, a master criminal, a cheeky raven, and a heroine with a big heart (and an even bigger book collection) in this brand new steamy reverse harem paranormal mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Steffanie Holmes.
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This book is excellent! Just love it to pieces! Super clever and original.. I voluntarily received this book for an honest review.
Memoirs of a Garroter (Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries Book 4) Kindle Edition
by Steffanie Holmes
I borrowed this book via the Kindle Unlimited program. I am choosing to leave a fair and honest review.
Ms. Holmes has moved up to one of my favorite authors. She has a sly talent for dialogue and a gift with dialects. The dialogue in her books is wonderful. In the Nevermore Bookshop, her talents are brilliantly framed in a gift to all bibliophiles. Who else would understand a mint condition Dickens novel being worth more than ten quid? But with Ms. Holmes, as much as the mysteries are fun and often funny, it is the stuff that goes on between looking for the killer. The conversations, the character development and some of the best dialogue I have ever had the joy of reading.
Mina’s growing visual impairment is treated with such beautiful authenticity. This comes through very clearly. Her role as the narrator shows this in frustration, deep sadness and a touch of black humor.
Her sorrow is not the only truth being shared here. Quoth’s sadness is palatable and when is starts to lighten, his joy is there as well. The main characters, Mina, Morrie, Quoth and Heathcliff, are prickly because not only is all of this pales to pending economic disaster because the store is slowly sinking into bankruptcy. That is the reason that Danny, our murder victim and fantastically successful, wealthy and frisky author. Mina also finally learns who her father is and we learn who the series long villain will be.
Mina’s narrative voice is delightfully British, in the description (some with most divine snark). There is some Brit slang, but even this Yank could understand it!
The love scenes are steamy and, thankfully add the story but don’t outweigh the character development, plot or the beauty of the prose itself
I am cutting this review short because I want to read the next in the series. I believe I will probably binge this series.
5 stars out of 5
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Mina and her three lovers, Morrie, Quoth, and Heathcliff are still coming across murders and solving them. I absolutely love this series and all of the characters.
Murder in the Nevermore Bookshop – it’s becoming an all too frequent occurrence. If there is any hope of getting customers back in the store, Mina and the guys will have to solve the murder of famous crime writer Danny Sledge. There are more stunning revelations and plenty of steamy scenes with Mina and her book boyfriends Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth. Great writing by Steffanie Holmes in this very enjoyable supernatural murder mystery.
I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Memoirs of a Garroter by Steffanie Holmes is book 4 in the Nevermore BookShop Mysteries Series. This continues the story of Wilhelmina ‘Mina’ Wilde. You really should read the previous books A Dead and Stormy Night along with the second book, Of Mice and Murder and the third book ‘Pride and Premeditation’. Mina is still dealing with the possibility that she is going blind and she is still working to improved the Nevermore Bookshop which of course things keep happening there but now she may be the one in danger. Mina is still working things through with Morrie, Quoth and Heathcliff.
Spicy mystery read for sure.
More murders to solve? Mina is on the case along with her three handsome boyfriends. She has to solve two more murders, that might just tie into an unsolved murder from years ago. We learn a whole lot more about Mina’s heritage, and who her dad really is. But what she learns is scary. Someone is coming to kill her. She is becoming more accepting that she is going blind in the near future, and is finding ways to deal with it, to live a full and meaningful life. Quoth is coming out of his shell more and not remaining as a raven as much. And he wants to go to art school. Heathcliff is still brooding, and Morrie is hiding something. Mina’s mom is goofier than ever. Can’t wait to find out what happens next.