Title: The Plot and the Pendulum
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Published: October 11th 2022 by Berkley
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 272 pages
Genre: Amateur Sleuth
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Library Lover's Mystery #13
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Published: October 11th 2022 by Berkley
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 272 pages
Genre: Amateur Sleuth
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Library Lover's Mystery #13
First Sentence: Lindsey Norris, director of the Briar Creek Public Library, was seated at the reference desk gazing out the window overlooking the bay and the archipelago call the Thumb Islands.
Blurb: Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family’s vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passage, leading to a room where a skeleton is found, clutching an old copy of The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Lindsey does a quick check of missing persons, using the distinctive 80s era clothing worn by the deceased to determine a time frame, and discovers that Briar Creek has an unsolved missing person’s case from 1989. A runaway bride went missing just weeks after her wedding. No suspects were ever arrested and the cold case remains unsolved. Lindsey and the crafternoon crew decide that justice is overdue and set about solving the old murder mystery, using some novel ideas to crack the case. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: The title is a play on words to Edgar Alan Poe’s, The Pit and the Pendulum, which parallels the spooky feel of a found skeleton, a hidden room, drafts, a disappearing cat, and scream-inducing power outages in a creepy mansion in Briar Creek. Which makes for a perfect autumn read.
If the reader is paying attention, the culprit is revealed midway through the book, yet you hang on to make sure you did pick up on the tell. Do I wish that the author had added a couple more diversions and possibilities – I do, but that is not how these things work.
Library Lover's Mystery series has been a hit or miss for me. The Plot and the Pendulum was a hit.
Blurb: Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family’s vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passage, leading to a room where a skeleton is found, clutching an old copy of The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Lindsey does a quick check of missing persons, using the distinctive 80s era clothing worn by the deceased to determine a time frame, and discovers that Briar Creek has an unsolved missing person’s case from 1989. A runaway bride went missing just weeks after her wedding. No suspects were ever arrested and the cold case remains unsolved. Lindsey and the crafternoon crew decide that justice is overdue and set about solving the old murder mystery, using some novel ideas to crack the case. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: The title is a play on words to Edgar Alan Poe’s, The Pit and the Pendulum, which parallels the spooky feel of a found skeleton, a hidden room, drafts, a disappearing cat, and scream-inducing power outages in a creepy mansion in Briar Creek. Which makes for a perfect autumn read.
If the reader is paying attention, the culprit is revealed midway through the book, yet you hang on to make sure you did pick up on the tell. Do I wish that the author had added a couple more diversions and possibilities – I do, but that is not how these things work.
Library Lover's Mystery series has been a hit or miss for me. The Plot and the Pendulum was a hit.
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