Bookclubbed to Death

Mystery Bookshop, Book 8

By: V. M. Burns

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

V. M. Burns returns with the latest book in her popular Mystery Bookstore mysteries set in a Michigan bookshop specializing in selling murder mysteries.

When the bookshop she owns becomes a crime scene, mystery writer Samantha Washington discovers there is such a thing as bad publicity.

After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately runs afoul of the club leader, Delia Marshall, a book reviewer who can make or break careers—something Sam can ill afford with her debut historical mystery soon to be published.

But the next morning, Sam opens her shop to find the unpleasant woman dead on the floor, bashed with a heavy—apparently lethal—tome: The Complete Works of Agatha Christie. While Sam is busy writing her latest British historical mystery in which the queen mother is suspected in the murder of a London Times correspondent, a pair of ambitious cops suspect Sam of the real-life crime.

When she gathers Nano Jo and their friends from the Shady Acres Retirement Village to review the case, they discover that every one of the Mavens had a motive. With her novel about to hit the stores, Sam must find out who clubbed Delia before a judge throws the book at her.

©2022 Valerie Burns (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

VM does it again

The two storylines a new twist for the author both were great. Book-clubbed had just enough excitement couldn’t stop reading.

great book!

this was really good I just wished audible had the whole series. Great plot and the narrator did a great job, she's one of my favorites.

Loved it

I loved the duality of the two mysteries. I also love the incorporation of the animals and culinary nod.

The upbeat sentiment throughout the book.

The book itself was entertaining but the reader/ narrator just made it pop! Good Read. Loved It.

Muddled

The characters are caricatures and the writing is muddled, especially the historical parts. The narrator doesn’t do the book any favors.