Murders and metaphors

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Label

Murders and metaphors

Statement of responsibility

Amanda Flower

Title variation

Murders & metaphors

Creator

• Flower, Amanda

Author

• Flower, Amanda

Subject

• Grandparent and child -- Fiction
• Magic -- Fiction
• March family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- Fiction
• Niagara County (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction
• Sommeliers -- Fiction
• Vineyards -- Fiction
• Wine festivals -- Fiction
• Women booksellers -- Fiction
• Bookstores -- Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Magical bookshop mystery, 3

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3606.L683

LC item number

M89 2019

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Magical bookshop mystery

Series volume

3