*****5-star Review
THE BOOK OF CANDLELIGHT
Author: Ellery Adams
Genre: Cozy Mystery
This review was first published in Booklistonline.com on 1/24/20: (https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Book-of-Candlelight/pid=9729902)
The third book in the Secret, Book, and Scone Society series serves up an appetizing dish for mystery lovers who enjoy books about bookstores, small towns, and female friends. The unrelenting spring rain in Miracle Springs, a small town in North Carolina, has brought increased business to Nora Pennington’s bookstore. To replenish her stock of shelf enhancers, Nora visits a local flea market, where she purchases a pottery piece created by a man known as Cherokee Danny. The next day, Nora discovers Danny’s body in the churning waters of the Miracle River near a rock painted with a symbol of a red cardinal. Nora enlists the help of three women who are fellow members of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society to help her catch Danny’s killer. When another body is found near the river and an old diary casts suspicion on the new owners of the town’s inn, Nora works with the sheriff to trap the killer into confessing. The ending ties up several subplots.
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I'm a librarian at a public library and author of the Cobble Cove cozy mystery series and other novels, short stories, poems, articles, and a novella. My books include CLOUDY RAINBOW, REASON TO DIE, SEA SCOPE, MEMORY MAKERS, TIME'S RELATIVE, MEOW AND PURRS, and the 5 books of my Cobble Cove cozy mystery series: A STONE'S THROW, BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, WRITTEN IN STONE, LOVE ON THE ROCKS, and NO GRAVESTONE UNTURNED. I've also written a romantic comedy novella, WHEN JACK TRUMPS ACE, and short stories of various genres published as eBooks by Solstice Publishing and in anthologies published by the Red Penguin Collection.
My standalone psychological thriller, SEA SCOPE, my medical mystery, MEMORY MAKERS, and my time-travel novel, TIME'S RELATIVE are published by NEXT CHAPTER PUBLISHING who has also published my latest book, MEOWS AND PURRS, a collection of cat poems. I have also signed contracts with Next Chapter for a reprint of PET POSTS: THE CAT CHATS, my non-fiction cat book, and THE CASE OF THE CAT CRAZY LADY: Buttercup Bend Mysteries #1, the first of a new cozy mystery series. In addition, Solstice Publishing will be publishing, SNEAKY'S SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY AND OTHER COBBLE COVE STORIES, a collection of four stories previously published as eBooks only and a new fifth story in a print and eBook collection.
I am a member of Sisters-in-Crime, Long Island Authors Group, International Thriller Writers, and the Cat Writers' Association. I live on Long Island with my husband, daughter, and 3 cats.
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