BURIED in a BOOK
Author:
Lucy Arlington
ISBN:
978-1-61173-435-5
Genre:
Mystery
Lila
Wilkins is a former newspaper journalist and she needs a job. in the classified
ads she finds that Novel Ideas is looking for an intern and since she wants to
be a literary agent Lila applies for the position. It isn't one of literary
agent instead she is the read the synopsis, query letters and manuscripts and
if she finds something that one of the many agents working at the firm should
consider it is her job to get the piece in front of the perspective agent. Lila
then gets the honor of rejecting the rest and while it is time consuming and
the bottom of the agency poll she is excited to have a job.
On the
homefront her teenage son is full of angst and in trouble. Lila fears they may
lose the house so she puts it up for sale and Lila and her son move in with her
unconventional mother.
Then
one day her world changes for the worst when a man she thinks is homeless but a
man who wrote a book and submitted the manuscript to Novel Ideas is discovered
dead. While the man may have smelled and was a bit odd she still feels bad and
wonders what happened. Turns out it was murder and Lila wants to know why
anyone would murder a homeless man who dies at her agency.
Soon
the trail leads to birdhouses, suspects right under employment roof and then
Lila realizes she doesn't know who she can trust and uncovers one secret after
another. When a second murder happens she knows that she must uncover who the
murderer is as he or she has her in their sights.
BURIED
in a BOOK by Lucy Arlington is the best mystery I read in 2012 and I have to
say I am hooked on the series. I have spent the past month raving about this
book to whomever will listen to me. The subject matter is a bit unconventional
in spots but somehow in this one mystery it works. This series is why we have
Malice Domestic because it's books like this that need a front row seat with
public viewing.
I give
BURIED in a BOOK ten out of ten stars and if I could give it more I would.
Pamela
James
Oh, she's a "slusher". I used to do that for my niece when she was an editor at TOR/Forge a number of years back. I never did find out if any of the things I liked ever made it into print though.
ReplyDeleteThis IS in my TBR pile
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