Dakota Adair owns and runs a quaint bookshop called Tattered Pages, in the small town of Silverwood Hollow. She has a background in antique books and if often asked to assess value. One afternoon two sisters come in, Carrie and Marcy. Marcy requests that Dakota procure an antique copy of Alice in Wonderland. Dakota is able to find a copy and decides to drop it by her house. When she arrives, Marcy does not answer her knocks and Dakota starts to get concerned. She looks in the window and can see someone lying on the floor but can only see feet. She tries the front door and it pushed open and she finds Marcy, dead, on the floor. After calling the police and giving her statement she makes her way back to her shop. Two questions are still bothering her; was Marcy a victim of foul play and what was the strange smell in her house? As the story progresses strange things start to come to light. First, Marcys's house was part of a street that had been bought up by a conglomerate and second, Carrie is the sole heir to whatever fortune Marcy had. Which by all accounts was pretty large. Dakota is asked to look at the books Marcy had and there are a lot of first editions, signed, including a first edition Chronicles of Narnia.
All in all, a cute read. There were a few lines in the book that put me off but overall, I think this is a series I could get into. The characters are fun and have plenty of personality. There are a few things I think that could be tweaked as the series progresses. Dakota seemed to not know what she wants. She claims to not like the town gossips, want a quiet life with no man but then inserts herself into the investigation, and seems to be interested in at least two of the men in this story. Despite this I am willing to give it another chance. I received this book free from Amazon when I signed up for Kindle Unlimited.
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