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MURDER IN THE LIBRARY
Book: Murder In The Library
Series: Julia Bird (Book 2)
Publication Day: 07 September 2022
Julia Bird had imagined the quiet of rural life would be soothing after years in the city, but she finds she can’t just sit still. Determined to throw herself into village activities, she joins the library just in time to attend a talk by celebrated local author Vincent Andrews.
Charming, devilishly handsome and talented, Vincent teases the crowd with a reading from his forthcoming novel. Set in a village bearing strange similarities to Berrywick, with characters the audience start to recognise, Vincent hints of dark secrets to be revealed, to gasps of outrage from the room. The meeting ends in uproar, and, just hours later, Vincent’s dead body is discovered behind the bookshelves…
As one of the last people to see him alive, Julia feels morally bound to help the police investigate. With her trusty Labrador, Jake, at her side, she decides to do her own sleuthing and quickly discovers that Vincent’s personal life is messy, his finances are in disarray and his book sales are declining. But most of all, remembering her neighbours’ faces at the book reading, Julia wonders if one of them could have lost the plot enough to kill…
As Julia interrogates the suspects, she walks straight into another scene of murder and mayhem, and realises Vincent’s manuscript is now missing. There’s someone out there who’s deadly serious about keeping their secrets unpublished. Will Julia be able to stop them, before anyone else gets hurt?
Brilliantly twisty, this completely thrilling cosy mystery is perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton, Helena Marchmont and Clare Chase.
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MURDER IN THE LIBRARY by Katie Gayle is the second in the Julia
Bird cosy mystery books.
After a somewhat bumpy introduction to village life, Julia seems to have found her groove. Village life suits her, she is enjoying herself, enjoying life with her mischievous dog, Jake, and, there’s even a potential romance in the offing.
But life takes another strange turn when local-boy-come-famous-author VF Andrew’s body is found in the library. It’s murder alright but whodunnit?
The writing duo Katie Gayle have once again given us a group of interesting and quirky characters. This book is more serious in tone
than the first of the series, but what we get is still in
keeping with the storyline and the series. I felt the book was plotted well.
The pacing worked for me .
I am still a huge fan of Julia, the main character. She is so down to earth and sensible . . . but she is certainly not boring.
I want to say I guessed who did the murderer is, but I failed on that score. Never mind. I thoroughly enjoyed my return visit to the fictitious village of Berrywick and I am eager to return.
Snuggle into your favourite reading chair and get ready to be immersed in village life and murder.
Katie Gayle is the writing partnership of best-selling South African writers, Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel. Kate and Gail have, between them, written over ten books of various genres, but with Katie Gayle, they both make their debut in the cosy mystery genre. Both Gail and Kate live in Johannesburg, with husbands, children, dogs and cats. Unlike their sleuth Epiphany Bloom, neither of them have ever stolen a cat from the vet.
