Black Cat Bookshop Mystery: Double Booked for Death (Paperback)

from bgknighton

A very enjoyable cozy of a mystery. Everyone seems to be gelling. No big heroics, no huge gaffes, Darla seems to have a brain in her head. Actually thinks and things to not just happen to her. Let's hope it continues in this vein.

from JackieBlem

I saw a review online about this book, and it reminded me of my long time affair with "cozy" mysteries, especially those in a series. This one has all the things that were guaranteed to get my attention--it takes place in a bookstore, with booksellers as main characters, there's a moody resident ...

from LMHTWB

Double Booked for Death is the first in an intended series of cat mysteries. Darla has inherited Pettistone Books from her aunt, as well as a delightful black cat named Hamlet. During her first major event, a book signing, the author is hit by a car in front of the store. Accident or murder? That...

from FerneMysteryReader

As a retired librarian that has hosted many author/book signing events, as a former bookstore employee, at one time, a former NYC resident, and with familiarity of the layout of rowhouses (home of my grandparents in NE Philadelphia), this novel brought many smiles as I could so easily immerse mys...

from TheLibraryhag

When Darla's Brooklyn bookstore snags a rare signing with the hot YA author of the moment, it seems that everything is coming up roses. However, the author is killed out side her shop in an apparent accident and Darla is determined to find out if it was in fact an accident, or was the author push...