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Murders and Metaphors

por Amanda Flower

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop mystery. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake, prepare your bookshelves!
Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara.

January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs Violet that she??s already arranged for the mystical Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins??s book signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard??with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.
Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs, but she left town years ago after a huge falling-out with her three sisters. One of those sisters, Violet??s high school friend Lacey Dupont, attends the book signing in the hope of making amends with her sister, but Belinda and Lacey end up disrupting the signing with a very public shouting match and Lacey quickly becomes the prime suspect in the sommelier??s murder.
Violet is sure Lacey is innocent, and to keep her friend out of prison, Violet asks for guidance from her magical bookshop. The shop??s ethereal essence points her to Louisa May Alcott??s Little Women, but what have the four March sisters to do with the four Perkins sisters? If she can??t figure it out, Violet, herself, may turn as cold as ice. Violet, Grandma Daisy, Emerson the tuxedo cat, and resident crow Faulkner are back on the case in Murders and Metaphors, USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower??s enchanting thir
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This is the third book in the cozy mystery series Magical Bookshop; it is recommended that one read the earlier books first. This mystery was challenging for me. I had trouble deciding who had done the deed, and I kept guessing the wrong person.

Recommended for fans of cozy mysteries. ( )
  Jean_Sexton | Mar 17, 2024 |
I am enjoying this series a lot and am looking forward to continuing. I am surprised, though, when I find grammatical and spelling errors in a published book, not an advancing reading copy. Anyway, I am happy to be learning about upstate New York and ice wines, which I hadn't heard of before. ( )
  eliorajoy | Jan 24, 2023 |
This is one of those series where the premise and the characters are strong, but the writing and editing could be better. A bookshop with a magically sustained tree growing through the center that communicates through books with its owners; a raven that talks and a cat that understands more than he should; a native American sheriff that plays a strong role in the plots.

The mystery was ok; a little too frantic, but well done and I didn't guess the murderer. The motive was weak; plenty of other suspects had much more compelling reasons to kill the victim, which leaves the murderer's reasons feeling way too shallow.

There's a lot to like, and it's not an unenjoyable read, if you'll excuse the double negatives, it's just not a great read. I enjoyed the time I spent reading it enough to keep reading it, but not enough to feel anxious about reading the next one. ( )
  murderbydeath | Feb 10, 2022 |
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What a great book, I think the series is really hitting it’s stride with this one. A wonderful main character Violet, her eccentric sidekick Grandma Daisy, a village full of charming and quirky characters and the two best pets in crime solving fiction. Emerson a cat who comes across the dead body and Faulkner the crow who’s always spouting advice. Along with a magical bookstore in a Victorian house.

“Charming Books, where the perfect book picks you. Can I help you?” I asked in a breathless voice.


I love all the literary references in the book, most are from Little Woman but there are also a few others along the way.

The only thing I didn’t love and why I knocked one star off was because Violet seems intent to keep the magical nature of the shop and her role as caretaker from Rainwater the man she loves. I hate it when loving characters keep secrets from each other. I hope she comes clean in the next book.

Another nice thing about this book, in a genre that seems to be almost exclusively white we have a Native American Chief of Police and an African American poet. It's great to see some diversity. Let’s hope other authors in the genre follow Flower’s lead.

Cozies Reading Challenge ( )
  kevn57 | Dec 8, 2021 |
The third book in the Magical Bookshop series is just as charming as the first two!

When a respected wine expert and author is stabbed in the back following a book signing, one of the top suspects is Violet Waverly’s friend Lacey, the estranged sister of the victim. Determined to clear her friend’s name, Violet finds no shortage of enemies to investigate — but the magical essence of her bookstore is pointing her toward Little Women and Lacey’s other sisters. Meanwhile, Violet’s friendship with the town’s police chief might be budding into something more, if her secret about the bookshop didn’t stand in between them.

There’s never a dull moment in the village of Cascade Springs. And with the interesting turn of events at the end of the book, I can’t wait to see how Violet and Grandma Daisy’s lives change in the next one! ( )
  vvbooklady | May 6, 2021 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop mystery. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake, prepare your bookshelves!
Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara.

January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs Violet that she??s already arranged for the mystical Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins??s book signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard??with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.
Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs, but she left town years ago after a huge falling-out with her three sisters. One of those sisters, Violet??s high school friend Lacey Dupont, attends the book signing in the hope of making amends with her sister, but Belinda and Lacey end up disrupting the signing with a very public shouting match and Lacey quickly becomes the prime suspect in the sommelier??s murder.
Violet is sure Lacey is innocent, and to keep her friend out of prison, Violet asks for guidance from her magical bookshop. The shop??s ethereal essence points her to Louisa May Alcott??s Little Women, but what have the four March sisters to do with the four Perkins sisters? If she can??t figure it out, Violet, herself, may turn as cold as ice. Violet, Grandma Daisy, Emerson the tuxedo cat, and resident crow Faulkner are back on the case in Murders and Metaphors, USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower??s enchanting thir

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