How to Book a Murder

<b>Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle in Agatha award-winning author&#160;Cynthia Kuhn&#146;s series debut small-town bookseller and&#160;literary&#160;event planner Emma Starrs is out to close the book on a killer intent on crashing the party.</b><br><br>To help save her family&#146;s floundering Colorado bookstore Starlit Bookshop newly minted Ph.D. Emma Starrs agrees to plan a mystery-themed dinner party for her wealthy well-connected high school classmate Tabitha Baxter. It&#146;s a delightful evening of cocktails and conjecture until Tabitha&#146;s husband Tip&#151;hosting the affair in the guise of Edgar&#160;Allan&#160;Poe&#146;s detective C. Auguste Dupin&#151;winds up murdered.<br>&#160;<br>In a heartbeat Emma and her aunt Nora a famous mystery writer become suspects.&#160;Emma is sure the party&#146;s over for Starlit events until celebrated author Calliope Nightfall whose gothic sensibilities are intrigued by the circumstances implores the bookseller to create a Poe-themed launch event for her latest tome. Throwing a bash to die for while searching for additional clues is already enough to drive Emma stark raven mad but another shocking crime soon reveals that Silvercrest has not yet reached the final chapter of the puzzling case.<br>&#160;<br>Someone in this charming artistic community has murder on the mind and if Emma cannot outwit the killer she and her beloved aunt will land behind bars to walk free nevermore.