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Murder by the Seashore

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by Samara Yew
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Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Ellery Adams, Scarlett Gardner’s dream was to open a bookshop in Southern California, but it soon becomes a nightmare when she finds the dead body of a customer—and becomes the prime suspect.
Southern California is where dreams come true—or so Scarlett Gardner thought. When she moved there and opened the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop, she thought her boyfriend and business partner would be part of the story. When he leaves her for a better job, Scarlett finds herself struggling to keep her new business afloat. That’s not the only thing she has to worry about—she discovers something underneath the pier by her bookshop that she didn’t outline for her life’s story: the dead body of a book-buying customer.
After Scarlett gives a statement to the police, she thinks her life can go back to business as usual. But when a lawyer, representing someone named Lorelai Knight, tells Scarlett that she now stands to inherit a small fortune, she’s left with more questions than answers. Before she can make sense of any of it, the police bring her in for questioning; the body she found was Lorelai Knight. And the evidence they have against Scarlett doesn’t look good. Business is booming as Scarlett returns to Palm Trees and Page Turners, but for all the wrong reasons – curious tourists don’t want books, they want a glimpse of the Bookshop Killer.
Who could really be behind all of this? And why frame Scarlett? To clear her name, she’s going to have get creative—and hope she can remain one page ahead of the killer.

  • Creators

  • Series

    A California Bookshop Mystery

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  • Release date

    October 17, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781639104949

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      • ISBN: 9781639104949
      • File size: 1039 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      September 15, 2023
      Good fortune and misfortune become a tangled web for the owner of a seaside bookstore in Southern California. Palm Trees and Page Turners is a source of great pride for Scarlett Gardner. It's a lot of work for a 20-something to run a bookshop on her own, even with the help of cheerful, devoted Evelyn Maxwell, her sole employee. But the person Scarlett had hoped would share her toil and her accomplishments was her ex-boyfriend Connor, who lit out shortly after Palm and Page opened. Still, Scarlett isn't sorry she decided to stay on in Oceanside after Connor's defection, since she finds the salt air soothing and the pace of life congenial. Her new roommate, Lucia Armenta, is simpatico, and the women spend quality time lounging on the sand and enjoying pizza and movie nights. Their domestic bliss is interrupted when Scarlett comes across a dead woman under the local pier but suffers no serious damage until the corpse is identified as Lorelai Knight, who, it turns out, has left a great deal of money to Scarlett. Scarlett can't figure out why a total stranger would have left her a small fortune, but the windfall has definite downsides. It brings Connor scuttling back, hoping his ex will share some of her newfound wealth. And it puts Scarlett high up the list of suspects compiled by Det. Steve Maxwell of the Oceanside police, who's Evelyn's husband. Scarlett's response to the good, the bad, and the ugly will appeal to readers who just may be in search of a good beach read themselves. A quirky take on life, love, and murder.

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