Title: A Fatal Folio
Author: Sophia Love
Date: 2020
Quote: "[T]he type of books you deal with, as amazing as they are, simply don't sell."
Lex's employers, a publishing company, regretfully let her go because serious nonfiction isn't selling as well as bogus celebrity memoirs. Her friends and family don't want to encourage her dream of running a small unprofitable bookstore. So she goes to work in someone else's small unprofitable bookstore. The store handles rare, valuable, and occult material--the kind of books one can imagine would even contain a spell that might kill someone if spoken aloud. When a customer who handles such books is murdered, Lex feels obliged to solve the mystery. She tried reading a few lines aloud to see what language they were in...
It goes with the territory: Lexi will solve the mystery. By the end of the series the author vacillated between calling "Witching Place" or "Curious Bookstore," no doubt she'll own the store and be married to one of her new friends in the New England village of Incanton. Readers will enjoy the cozy mystery and quirky New England village atmosphere, all along the way. It's not a realistic story about our world. It's a fantasy world, funnier than ours, and more entertaining.
If you like cozy mysteries with bookstores and hints of black magic, this series is for you.
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