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    One Book in the Grave: A Bibliophile Mystery

    Written by Kate Carlisle

    Narrated by Susie Berneis

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    Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairytale come true - until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend. Three years ago, Max Adams fell in love with Emily and gave her the copy of Beauty and the Beast. Soon afterward, he died in a car crash, and Brooklyn has always suspected his ex-girlfriend and her jealous beau. Now she decides to find out who sold the book and return it to its rightful owner - Emily. She believes a book dealer can assist her, but when she arrives at his shop, she finds him murdered. Is it possible the same couple who may have killed Daniel is now after his edition of Beauty and the Beast?
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    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781624067525
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    One Book in the Grave: A Bibliophile Mystery
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    Kate Carlisle

    Kate Carlisle writes for Harlequin Desire and is also the New York Times bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mystery series for NAL. Kate spent twenty years in television production before enrolling in law school, where she turned to writing fiction as a lawful way to kill off her professors. She eventually left law school, but the urge to write has never left her. Kate and her husband live near the beach in Southern California where she was born and raised.

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    • 4/5
      The mystery was well constructed, but the characters were not all that much to my liking.
    • 4/5
      There is so much to think about in this cozy. I focused on the life led by a character named Max. Love gets him in a basket of trouble. He finds it necessary to change his whole life. There is hate and jealousy. Jealousy can lead to all sorts of dangerous tendencies. Some might call one character a Psychopath. Then, there is the book love throughout the book. A book is used to carry a mystery letter. The title of the book is "Beauty And The Beast." I especially loved the romantic relationship between Brooklyn and Derek.How quaint each of Brooklyn's siblings are named after a place. There is also the wonderful vocation of bookbinding. The process of papermaking is written about. I tried to follow the technique closely. I couldn't. I just ended up knowing paper is so beautiful for books. There is gilding, and there are many colors like purple and vermillion. These are only a few of the issues covered in the mystery written by Kate Carlisle. There is also a cultish church and thoughts about survivalists.
    • 4/5
      Brooklyn is contacted by an old friend to restore a rare copy of Beauty and the Beast but when she sees it, she has to disappoint him by telling him that the book is stolen - she knows because she originally gave the book to the actual owner. Separate twist, that owner is dead - or is he?This mystery took us through some of Brooklyn's past history, exposed us to more of her family in Dharma, and see her wrestling with her own feelings as well as trying to support others.Love the series!
    • 2/5
      In One Book in the Grave, Brooklyn is hired to restore a beautiful copy of Beauty and the Beast. However, she is horrified to find that the book belonged to a late friend's wife. When she pursues the original seller to discover who stole the book, she finds him dead on the floor. Mysteries are revealed, there is more kookiness from Brooklyn's family, and the dashing Derek eventually saves the day.

      I believe that I might have been too charitable with my reviews of the previous books. This one was an absolute slog, and I realized that it was not this individual book so much as the general writing and premise began to wear thin. I already expressed my dislike of Derek, the main romance interest, to begin with, and more novels featuring him have not cooled that dislike in any way. Kate Carlisle seems more interested in writing a romance that happens to have dead bodies than a mystery that happens to have a love interest. There's something horribly Sex and the City-meets-Bridget Jones about the dialogue and internal monologue of Brooklyn as she moons over how gosh-darn dreamy Derek is. She sounds more like a thirteen-year-old swooning over a boy band than a mature woman, frankly, and that internal monologue takes her down long, meandering pages that add nothing whatsoever to the plot. At one point, the reader is treated to a long passage that - well, reads like this:

      "So why rock the boat when it looked like smooth sailing ahead?

      I mentally rolled my eyes. Rock the boat? Smooth sailing? So many cliches, so little time. It was never a good thing to hear myself thinking in cliches.

      I had a great aunt, Aunt Jessica, my dad's father's sister, who spoke only in cliches and the occasional mixed metaphor. Instead of ever giving advice or admonishing, Aunt Jessica would nod gravely and say, 'Sleeping dogs.' Or she would wink at one of us and murmur, 'Bird in the hand.'

      So from an early age, my siblings and I recognized the true wisdom of her words. We would outdo one another trying to come up with some ridiculous comment to describe a situation. Finally, my father outlawed all cliches and silly metaphors. He decreed that we were allowed to think only original thoughts. It was silent at the dinner table for a few nights until he relented. But we learned our lesson, and from then on we did try to avoid cliches like the plague. Ha!

      My point was that wen I caught myself thinking in metaphors, mixed or otherwise, I knew I was either extremely tired or in serious danger of losing my heart. Both of these circumstances could cause brain cells to diminish. It was a well-known fact" (119).

      It actually goes on a bit longer, but I've cut it short. This entire monologue, besides not being written particularly well, is completely useless to character development, plot development, or maturity development. Besides which, I find it hard to take seriously a woman over the age of 10 who unironically says, "Good grief" as an exclamation.

      The plot was particularly uninspired in this one and didn't so much strain believability as it did take a mallet and shatter it. As it turns out, Brooklyn was friends with a brilliant paper maker named Max who married Emily. However, an ex-girlfriend threatened their happiness and harassed Max to the point that he felt compelled to fake his own death and remain in hiding for three years until Brooklyn finally sniffs out the truth and uncovers a plot by a fanatic survivalist cult who are preparing for the Apocalypse and - honestly, I don't know why I am even going on with this. All that was missing was a long-lost twin sister who slept with the husband before it was uncovered that it was Great Aunt Bertha all along! At first I thought that she was going somewhere clever, and Emily was going to turn out to be the bad guy, but no, she was just a sweet plot device who conveniently got kidnapped just in time for Derek and Gabriel to swoop in and save her and Brooklyn.

      I am also losing my patience with the fact that Brooklyn apparently relishes being the shrinking violet. She even specifically comments that she knows it's not feminist, but tee-hee, Derek is just soooo dreamy!

      Brooklyn's internal dialogue also leads to another problem I have, which is that the quirkiness of the family and characters is so contrived that it feels horribly forced, like people laughing loudly at a not-funny joke to cover the awkwardness. I won't bother to quote the entire passage again, but she relates a memory from her childhood where her mother explained what "assume the position" meant, that cops wanted to search you. Her dad of course made the hilarious and original joke that it actually meant to bend over and kiss your own ass goodbye. Their parents would snap, "Assume the position!" at their kids periodically and laugh hysterically when they did. As Brooklyn sums this up, "My parents were a couple of cards. No wonder we didn't do drugs; things were zany enough around our house without the added buzz" (121). Yup. That sure is ~zany!~

      It also points to another main problem, which is that there are no problems. There's a murder, which certainly complicates things, but her family are all happy bunnies who love each other and never fight because they're just so hippie-dippie loving, and her relationship with Derek is never jeopardized, because he just loves her so much and the only problems she can make are completely random insecurities and ramblings. Even the friends - Vinnie, Suzie, and the new gay couple who moved in - just love Brooklyn so much! She's so funny! And awesome! And isn't it just so funny how quirky she is?

      Truthfully, this is the last book of the series I'm going to read. The same jokes, the same lack of conflict or development, and the sheer unbelievability and dearth of nuance just make this series a dull, uninspiring read.
    • 4/5
      Enjoy this series much. Not too cutesy and great characters.
    • 4/5
      A much stronger entry in the series that the previous volume, "Murder Under Cover." The mystery is much stronger (although a tad incredible), and we seem to be learning more about the inhabitants of Dharma, by far the most intriguing slate of supporting roles the author offers. Although an improvement as a mystery read, Carlisle still displays odd, even denigrating, notions about women. The lead character is strong, independent, and quite interesting. Until, that is, she is in the company of men, in which case she immediately becomes insecure, vapid, and easily distracted from more important matters like attempts on her life. There is no moment in which it is inappropriate to take a time out to swoon about this man or another. In this book she cannot even look a villain in the eye because his sexual magnetism makes her uneasy. And as in the last book we once again we see a woman's problems solved by being snatched up and carried away for a good lay. Apparently that's what they need when they get irritable? There's no getting around the fact that Carlisle plays to all the worst stereotypes about gender relations. Her characters really shine outside of that context, and that is why it is especially disappointing to see them reduced to stick figures whenever sex is involved. Nothing is more forced or awkward than when Derek keeps saying "darling." All the books would be improved by removing the overdone romantic digressions. Finally, the cartoonish character of Minka has gone on long enough. She has undergone no development over the books, and at this point she is the Jar-Jar Binks of the series, although an angry cranky one. No one is this one-dimensional. There is no rhyme or reason to sudden appearances and irrational outbursts. Please give her a background story and make her as much a three-dimensional person as the rest of the characters.
    • 2/5
      I like the idea that this mystery could involve books and bookbinding, and it did, to a degree, maybe more than some of the others in the series. (I wonder how the Wilkie Collins set turned out, but don't think they were fully restored by the end of this one.) I would've liked even more book coverage, though!

      I was surprised by how much slang and current phrases were used in the dialogues and thoughts of the character, especially for Brooklyn. It broke up the writing, which included some incomplete sentences that slowed down the flow a little bit.

      I'm still surprised by the superficiality of Brooklyn and Derek's relationship too, still lots of "terms of endearment" between the two, and written thoughts of how hot Derek looks in jeans, in black, etc.

      The Minka character is still a mystery to me. She adds nothing to the book except for strife and tension in very immature ways. (Some version or another of "Give me that book, you b****" comes to mind.) She floats in and out of each book I've read in this series, without any meaning or connection to the plot. What's up with that?
    • 5/5
      Brooklyn gets a call from friend and head curator of the Covington Library, Ian. Ian has a job for Brooklyn, restoring a classic version of Beauty and the Beast. Brooklyn has to break the news to Ian that the book is stolen, and it was stolen from the fiance of a good friend. This friend died three years ago and yes, Brooklyn is positive because she is the person who gave the book to Max and his fiance, Emily.What follows is a wild ride that involves a dead book dealer, mysteries on top of mysteries and some real danger to Brooklyn, her family and friends, and Derek and Gabriel. There is an usual religion involved and some truly obsessed females involved.As usual, I loved this book, it is a great addition to the series and I'm looking forward to reading more books involving Brooklyn.
    • 4/5
      Brooklyn Wainwright is a bookbinder who seems to attract murders, this has led her to romance and some adventures but this one brings her home. When she's asked to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast she recognises the copy which leads her to a mystery surrounding the death of a friend who used to have the book.Then bodies start to accumulate...It was a fun read, I liked the geekery, unsurprisingly, the mystery was interesting and took me in directions I didn't expect all the time and overall I liked how it worked.It's a light read, but I liked it, I'd like to read more in this series.
    • 5/5
      If you really enjoy cozy mysteries and consider yourself a bibliophile, I can't recommend this series enough! Quirky, interesting characters that make you smile, fantastic dialogue, picturesque settings, and just enough information about book restoration to make me want to become a book restorer define this series as a whole. The mystery plot in this, the 5th book is excellent; it feels straightforward but isn't. Lots of twists and turns, red herrings, a few surprises and a great ending. A truly enjoyable book I did not want to end.
    • 2/5
      This was a fun read, but not a winner in the mystery world. Paper making and bookbinding were interesting sidelights. Revealing info re: living in a commune.
    • 4/5
      So much better than book 4, you would not believe it.
    • 3/5
      Plot Synopsis

      Brooklyn discovers bookseller Joe Taylor’s murder when trying to find a book thief, this leads to finding out that her father and others faked the death of Max Adams, a renowned papermaker. After Gabriel, Derek and her track down Max they learn that the chief suspects are Angelica and Solomon. After Angelica's body is delivered to Brooklyn, Max's fiancé Emily shows up.

      Emily is then kidnapped, by Crystal and Melody Byers, two members of the Ogun Church. Crystal is in love with Solomon and murdered Angelica because she was jealous of her relationship with Solomon. Crystal then kidnaps Brooklyn who's saved by Derek.
    • 4/5
      Intriguing story, with a few twists at the end. Enough already about what a hunk her boyfriend is!
    • 4/5
      Brooklyn is presented with a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast to restore, the only problem is Brooklyn knows the the book intimately, and that it was stolen from a young widow. Brooklyn tries to follow up with the book seller who had sold the book, but finds him dead and all the clues at the scene point to a close friend of Brooklyn's who died three years ago.Brooklyn is insecure and not as decisive in this edition. She is conceding to the love interest, trying to abide by his requests to not get in harms way etc. But more than that, it seems she is becoming dependent upon him while being insecure. Her boyfriend Derek, we are continually reminded, is rich and drop-dead-gorgeous. But otherwise he seems like a cardboard cutout of Fabio being moved around. This would have been the edition to make him more "real" to the reader, but I didn't feel that was even on the agenda. Minka, Brooklyn's nasty nemesis, made a couple of appearances that seemed thrown in without a real purpose. That was jarring. The standouts in this book were Brooklyn's family. The reader has gotten used to their being new-agey, but a very different side is shown of them. Sweet! Guru Bob has more substance to him this time around as well. Gabriel is enigmatic as always.Forced is the best word to describe the plot. The initial setup of the plot seems a stretch. There are enough times throughout the story that are improbable so that it feels "off" throughout. The setting is not a key ingredient, but manages to add to the suspense with cat-and-mouse hunts in the hills of California. Pacing was a bit on-and-off because the story didn't seem to flow smoothly.The climatic confrontation with the killer is perhaps the best part of the entire book. The villain was not obvious but, looking back, the subtle clues were there. The wrap up was a little flat. This is the time in a series when it hits its stride or starts to stumble. I feel this book was not comparable to the prior books, although it is still a fun cozy. I hope this is just a slight hiccup and the next book will have a more thoughtful plot and the old Brooklyn back.4th in Bibliophile MysteriesMain Characters: Brooklyn Wainwright, book binder and restorerSetting: modern day, San Francisco and countrysideObtained Through: Publisher for honest review
    • 4/5
      In this 5th book in the series, Brooklyn is asked to restore an antique copy of Beauty and the Beast for the Covington Library. The only problem is that Brooklyn used to own the book and gave to a friend as an engagement present. This friend has since died and Brooklyn knows that this book had been stolen shortly after. Trying to find who had stolen the book, she goes to the book dealer who sold it to the Covington, only to find him, surprise, dead. One thing leads to another and Brooklyn finds herself, once again, in the middle of a web of deceit and danger. Love these books. The story is always interesting and Brooklyn's family is in this one a lot. I just love her mom. Relationships are blossoming all around. As with most cozies, the characters and backstory are so much better than the mystery itself. Can't wait for the next one, Peril in Paperback.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable entry. More developments in their relationships. Max is back. She needs to find out what Derek really does. That should be interesting. The mystery tends to get a little tangled, with too few clear motives.
    • 4/5
      n this installment, Brooklyn is asked to look at a book recently purchased by one of her clients who happens to the the head curator of the fictional Covington Library in San Francisco. But it turns out that the book he wants her to restore was a gift she had given to a dear friend, which was subsequently stolen. The friend to whom she'd gifted the book, Max Adams, had died in a car accident, and the book had been taken from his fiancée's apartment.When Brooklyn goes to the dealer who had sold the book to the Library, she finds him on the floor of his shop, stabbed to death.After dealing with the police, Brooklyn heads to her car to leave and finds that all the tires have been slashed. Now it's personal, and Brooklyn has to find out exactly why.It seems a long time since the previous book in this series, Murder Under Cover was released, but investigation shows that it's been less than a year. This is one of my favorite recent series, mainly because of the protagonist, Brooklyn Wainwright and her fascinating profession: a bookbinder who specializes in antique and rare books. Brooklyn grew up in a commune just a few hours from the city, where her parents now own a winery, and two of her sisters have businesses as well. When Brooklyn returns for the grand opening of her sister's gourmet restaurant, she discovers that she may be in danger as well.