Victoria Gilbert
Author
Series
Booklover's B&B volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-Breakfast is a reader's paradise. Built in 1770, the newly renovated inn hosts a roster of special events celebrating books, genres, and authors. It's the perfect literary retreat-until a rare book dealer turns up dead in the carriage house during a celebration of Golden Age mystery author Josephine Tey. The victim's daughter points the finger at forty-two-year-old...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. Spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire, and Amy's neighbor Richard Muir becomes a person of interest. The student...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Taylorsford, Virginia, during the height of October's leaf-peeping season, library director Amy Webber, and her assistant, Sunny, prepare for the library's yard sale fundraiser--until a dead body stops them in their tracks.
Author
Series
Booklover's B&B volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children's literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she's fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole. The victim--an opinionated busybody whose jewelry store sold original designs, along with some possibly 'hot' merchandise--had plenty...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 8
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the chair of Taylorsford's first Winterfest is murdered and her brother-in-law is the prime suspect, library director Amy Muir must race against time to prove his innocence before another life is claimed by a killer who's on Santa's naughty list.
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 7
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's early summer, and while Richard Muir and his dance partner, Karla, are preparing their new choreographic piece, Richard's wife, Amy, is gathering the dance's source materials. Based on folktales and the music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the production is set to premiere at an old cinema that has been converted to a theater. But when dancer Meredith Fox Richard's former fiancé is found dead backstage, Amy is once again propelled into a murder...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 6
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy Webber and her new husband Richard Muir are settling into married life--and a new project. Richard is choreographing a suite based on folk music and tales, while Amy scours the library's resources for background information on the dance's source material. But the mellifluous music comes to a halt when an unknown woman's body turns up in Zelda Shoemaker's backyard gazebo. Chief Deputy Brad Tucker puts Zelda at the top of his suspect list, thanks...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 5
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Investigating an art dealer's murder to help clear a friend's name while juggling the demands of her approaching nuptials, librarian Amy Webber is thwarted by her aunt Lydia's boyfriend, who believes the chief suspect is guilty."--Publisher
At a party celebrating their upcoming nuptials, Taylorsford, Virginia library director Amy Webber and her fiancé Richard Muir discover the body of art dealer Oscar Selvaggio, a bitter rival of their host, Kurt...
Author
Series
Booklover's B&B volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing, Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B, her neighbor Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.
Beaufort, North Carolina. Charlotte Reed's historic 18th-century inn draws in voracious readers from far and wide with its special events. This July weekend, a visit by one of the...
10) A cryptic clue
Author
Series
Hunter and Clewe volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
"Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 4
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the "flower children" when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune. Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend "Sunny" Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate's closet. Sunny's grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face...
12) A killer clue
Author
Series
Hunter and Clewe volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Eloise Anderson, the owner of an antiquarian bookshop, arrives at the grand Aircroft estate to ask retired librarian Jane Hunter and eccentric collector Cameron Clewe for help, Jane and Cam expect a bookish inquiry. But the bookseller has a different sort of assistance in mind--clearing her mother's name of a murder Eloise is convinced she didn't commit. Eloise's mother has just died after spending many years in prison for allegedly killing...
Author
Series
Campus sleuth volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jennifer 'Jen' Dalton is an author and educator at Clarion University in Virginia. She loves her job, but some of her petty coworkers look down on her for writing genre fiction. As members of the English department, they wish to encourage students to pursue higher literary aspirations. When a humiliating confrontation between an uppity professor and one of Jen's students, Mia, escalates, no one thinks much of it. Until his dead body is found along...
14) A deadly clue
Author
Series
Hunter and Clewe volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2026.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Clewe and Jane Hunter, lovers of all things bookish, are slowly cataloging Cam's private collection of first edition books acquired from the deceased patriarch of the wealthy Stewart family. When Jane finds a note from Kimberly Stewart Ward, one of the daughters of the Stewart patriarch--who supposedly committed suicide--she discovers someone was actually targeting her with the intention of killing her. Jane and Cam decide to look into the...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 9
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a woman is murdered after accusing art dealer Kurt Kendrick of a cold case crime, librarian Amy Muir races to uncover the truth and protect her family"-- Provided by publisher.
Library director Amy Muir has always been suspicious of wealthy art dealer Kurt Kendrick. As a close family friend, the ties that bind them are strong, but his murky past is concerning, especially since he is the godfather to Amy and her husband Richard's six-year-old...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Librarian Amy Webber leaves her university job to live with her aunt in a historic Virginia mountain town. She lands a new gig managing the charming public library, which has too little money and too many eccentric patrons. The last thing busy Amy needs is a charming new neighbor. Choreographer Richard Muir inherited the farmhouse next door--and its scandalous story--from his great-uncle. Town folklore claims the original owner was poisoned by his...

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