Book Review: Chapter and Curse

Chapter and Curse

by Elizabeth Penney

Pub Date 28 Sep 2021

St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Paperbacks

Mystery & Thrillers

I am reviewing a copy of Chapter and Curse through St Martin Press and NetGalley:

Molly Kimball a librarian and her Mother Nina, needs a change So when a letter arrives from Nina’s Aunt Violet in Cambridge, England requesting their help running the family bookshop, they jump at the chance.

Thomas Marlowe- Manuscripts and Folios is the oldest one of the oldest bookshops in Cambridge, and — unfortunately — customers can tell. After Molly and Nina arrive, spring has come to Cambridge and the famed Cambridge Literary Festival is underway. Molly has become determined to bring much-needed revenue to the bookstore, Molly invites Aunt Violet’s college classmate and famed poet Persephone Brightwell to hold a poetry reading in the shop. Sadly the event ends in disaster when a guest is found dead — with Molly’s great-aunt’s knitting needle used as the murder weapon. While trying to clear Violet and keep the struggling shop afloat, Molly sifts through secrets past and present, untangling a web of blackmail, deceit, and murder.

I give Chapter and Curse five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!