Crime and Poetry

From the national bestselling author of the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries comes the first charming caper in the Magical Bookshop Mystery series. Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother's bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect health. Violet doesn't need to read between the lines: her grandma wants Violet back home and working in her magical store, Charming Books. It's where the perfect book tends to fly off the shelf and pick you... Violet has every intention to hightail it back to Chicago, but then a dead man is discovered clutching a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems from Grandma Daisy's shop. The victim is Benedict Raisin, who recently put Grandma Daisy in his will, making her a prime suspect. Now, with the help of a tuxedo cat named Emerson, Violet will have to find a killer to keep Grandma from getting booked for good...

Amanda Flower is the USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of the Magical Bookshop Mysteries, the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries, and the Magical Garden Mysteries. She also writes the national bestselling Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries under the name Isabella Allen. In addition to being an author, she is a librarian in Northeast Ohio.