First in an adorable new cozy series! Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he’s inherited both a failing bookstore and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove on Buck Island, Rhode Island, it’s full steam ahead! Sure enough, the village is …
Sure enough, the village is charming, its residents amusingly eccentric, and widowed police chief Jack Carson is decidedly yummy (though probably as straight as he is stern). However, the bookstore is failing, the mansion is falling down, and there’s that little drawback of finding rival bookseller–and head of the unwelcoming-committee–Trevor Maples dead during the annual Buccaneer Days celebration.
Still, it could be worse. And once Police Chief Carson learns Trevor was killed with the cutlass hanging over the door of Ellery’s bookstore, it is.
**This story contains NO on-screen sex or violence.more
New house and new business, new town to live in? Heck, why not? So Ellery moves to Pirate’s Cove and the fun begins. At least, it was fun for me, but maybe not so much for Ellery. Because the house is crumbling, the business is almost in tatters, and someone tries to frame our hero for murder. But at least there’s eye candy, in the form of police chief Jack Carson.
To save his hide from going to prison, Ellery improvises himself a detective, and it’s immensely entertaining to watch him hunt for clues. His search causes butting heads with Jack, their interactions always a delight to witness. Alas, no romance between the two, just a hint of a love interest, but it was compensated with the mystery and with the introduction of the colorful people of Pirate’s Cove.
So, all in all, Murder at Pirate’s Cove is an awesome, fast flowing story that kept me engaged from beginning to end. Can’t wait for the next book in the series.