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Peril in Paperback (A Bibliophile Mystery #6)
by
Kate Carlisle (Goodreads Author)
How to become the life of the party? First, survive the celebration…
Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzie’s aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who’s turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house, full of every...more
Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzie’s aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who’s turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house, full of every...more
Mass Market Paperback, 277 pages
Published
August 7th 2012
by Signet
(first published April 10th 2012)
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I loved this book. I love Kate Carlisle because they're always a quick read, and I never actually want to put them down. It was 1:30 in the morning and I needed to go to sleep, but I was 40 pages from the end and went, I don't need sleep, and stayed up until I finished it. Again, the person that you're convinced is the murderer has all the evidence to prove that was the case, and then she twists it all and you're left going, I was almost right! Knowing that the person she convinces you isn't the...more
I enjoy this series but as in many themed series there is a temptation to go overboard, in this one to make Aunt Grace's house almost impossibly complex. I did like the book shelves on the ceiling but the holograms and trap doors were a bit much.Why can I accept staff in an English household but not in an American west coast one? The nod to the classic mystery with a group of suspects locked in a house during a storm and then the unraveling at the end where the reasoning behind each person's mot...more
Kate Carlisle has taken one of the most popular traditional mystery conventions,the country house mystery, and made it her own.
Our favorite freelance bookbinder, Brooklyn Wainwright has been invited to a fiftieth birthday party at the home of Grace Crawford. The aunt of Brooklyn's neighbor Suzie Stein became acquainted with Brooklyn when she'd had some of her books rebound. Due to Grace's immense and varied collection of valuable books, they'd become friends.
Grace's home, a mansion near Lake Tah...more
Our favorite freelance bookbinder, Brooklyn Wainwright has been invited to a fiftieth birthday party at the home of Grace Crawford. The aunt of Brooklyn's neighbor Suzie Stein became acquainted with Brooklyn when she'd had some of her books rebound. Due to Grace's immense and varied collection of valuable books, they'd become friends.
Grace's home, a mansion near Lake Tah...more
In the sixth book in the Bibliophile Mystery series, Brooklyn is going to Lake Tahoe with her friends, Suzie and Vinnie, for a house party to celebrate Suzie's Aunt Grace's 50th birthday. It is a gala, week-long event with lots of food and games. Yes, games because Grace made her fortune creating games and though retired is still part owner of a very profitable game company. The party consists of a variety of folks, family, co-workers and a librarian who is cataloging Grace's vast library. When...more
The Real Mystery? How an author, agent and publisher let this book get so ridiculous it leaves us wondering if this series can recover.
Brooklyn is back and while her boyfriend Derek is on assignment in Europe, she's going away for a week vacation to celebrate Suzie's eccentric Aunt's birthday. In the beautifully lakeside mansion with a few tricks of its own, a group of Aunt Grace's family and friends kick off the festivities with a seance. What starts as a little harmless fun communing with the...more
Brooklyn is back and while her boyfriend Derek is on assignment in Europe, she's going away for a week vacation to celebrate Suzie's eccentric Aunt's birthday. In the beautifully lakeside mansion with a few tricks of its own, a group of Aunt Grace's family and friends kick off the festivities with a seance. What starts as a little harmless fun communing with the...more
First, let me state that I loved Kate Carlisle's first four books in her bibliophile series. I thought her characters were unique, quirky and fun to read, and her plotting was terrific. There was none of the simplistic or obvious plotting I dislike in many cozies. These were, in fact, some of the very best cozy mysteries I'd ever read.
Then came One Book in the Grave, which I found just okay. The plotting slipped. It wasn't as fresh as the previous books and the characters lost a bit of their sp...more
Then came One Book in the Grave, which I found just okay. The plotting slipped. It wasn't as fresh as the previous books and the characters lost a bit of their sp...more
Nov 13, 2012
Silver James
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Peril in Paperback is the latest addition to the Brooklyn Wainwright Bibliophile Mystery series from Kate Carlisle. I've been a big fan of this series since the beginning. This story finds book binder Brooklyn snowed in during a week-long house party in Lake Tahoe. Eccentric characters abound and Brooklyn is on her own--her sexy "hero", security expert Derek Stone is in Europe on an assignment. Whenever there are books and Brooklyn in the same place, there's bound to be a murder. This story read...more
This is the sixth book in the A Bibliophile Mystery series. There is also a novella e-book.
Brooklyn Wainwright and her neighbors, Vinnie and Suzie, are on their way to spend a relaxing week with Suzie's Aunt Grace at her Lake Tahoe extravagant home. Aunt Grace will be celebrating her 50th birthday with her family. Aunt Grace has made it known that she will have an important announcement at her birthday party. Many members of her family believe she about to rewrite her will and possibly leaving o...more
Brooklyn Wainwright and her neighbors, Vinnie and Suzie, are on their way to spend a relaxing week with Suzie's Aunt Grace at her Lake Tahoe extravagant home. Aunt Grace will be celebrating her 50th birthday with her family. Aunt Grace has made it known that she will have an important announcement at her birthday party. Many members of her family believe she about to rewrite her will and possibly leaving o...more
Brooklyn Wainwright is at it again. However, she is not alone when a body appears as she usually is.
Brooklyn and a group of other people are spending a week at friend Grace's mansion to help her celebrate her 50th birthday. Friends and family are included in the party but one dies during a seance and there are a number of suspects. When there is an attempt on the life of two others things really get confusing. Brooklyn is not only in a muddle because of these transgressions she is also concerned...more
Brooklyn and a group of other people are spending a week at friend Grace's mansion to help her celebrate her 50th birthday. Friends and family are included in the party but one dies during a seance and there are a number of suspects. When there is an attempt on the life of two others things really get confusing. Brooklyn is not only in a muddle because of these transgressions she is also concerned...more
At first I thought I'd be disappointed that Brooklyn's main squeeze was out of the country on business (I always look forward to seeing how Brooklyn and Derek Stone's relationship will progress). But Carlisle made a smart choice in leaving Stone out of most of the action. The reader gets a chance to see Brooklyn on her own again and though it's clear Brooklyn wants Derek to remain a part of her life, it was fun to watch her act as an independant entity again.
The setting is unique and fun to read...more
The setting is unique and fun to read...more
Bookbinder extraordinaire Brooklyn Wainwright is back and ready for a week away for a friend's birthday celebration. The celebrations gets complicated though when one of the guests winds up dead and things begin to happen to make Brooklyn think someone is out to get the host. Can Brooklyn and man of mystery Gabriel find the culprit before someone else dies?
I love these books probably more than I should. They are funny and not a little silly. This one especially. By the end there have been so man...more
I love these books probably more than I should. They are funny and not a little silly. This one especially. By the end there have been so man...more
I enjoy the characters and settings of the books so much, it's easy to like this installment. I bumped my 3.5 to a 4, but the mystery was a little weak. The end was kind of craziness with 3 tangents suddenly unraveling. In this book Brooklyn goes to a house party for Grace, who is Suzie's Aunt and a game entrepreneur. She has an amazing home on Lake Tahoe and invites a small crowd of people for her birthday. One of the guests is killed and they're stuck in the house due to snow. The plot thicken...more
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This was the sixth book in the Bibliophile Mystery Series by Kate Carlisle. In this book, we open with Brooklyn going with her neighbors Suzie and Vinnie to a week long birthday party given by Suzie's Aunt Grace. Grace is a multimillionaire, who made her money in as a game designer; starting with board games and moving into computer games. She has become quite the book collector and Brooklyn has done some book repair for her in the past and is really looking forward to seeing Grace's collection....more
Our Brooklyn Wainwright is off to enjoy her friend, Gracie's fiftieth birthday by spending a week at Gracie's home in Lake Tahoe. The house is wacky, the guests a bit different, but the food is sublime.
Then comes the seance where everyone is having a blast, until, mysterious footsteps sound and a fellow guest is found dead at the table. What is going on? Who was the intended victim? It is snowing and the guests are trapped together.
Gracie has written a novel based upon her life story. Does this...more
Then comes the seance where everyone is having a blast, until, mysterious footsteps sound and a fellow guest is found dead at the table. What is going on? Who was the intended victim? It is snowing and the guests are trapped together.
Gracie has written a novel based upon her life story. Does this...more
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Brooklyn Wainwright, an expert in restoring rare books, is invited to her neighbor Suzie's Aunt Grace's fiftieth birthday party. The party is a week-long celebration at Grace's incredible house at Lake Tahoe. Grace is the recently retired founder of a major video game corporation, and has designed her house to be one big game. During a seance one of the other guests is found dead, and Brooklyn thinks the intended victim was Grace. Brooklyn's friends Vinnie and Suzie are trying to help, but her b...more
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Brooklyn Wainwright, a expert bookbinder and repair artist is invited to her friend's Susie's aunt's house at Lake Tahoe to work on a few books and enjoy a house party to celebrate the owner's birthday. The owner is a very wealthy woman who has made a fortune in the gaming world by inventing and developing games. Her house has its own unique quirks: trapdoors, moving walls and halls and so on. When one of the guests is murdered, Brooklyn finds herself involved in trying to solve the crime. But...more
The good news is, there is no Minka LeBouf..the bad news is, three people take her spot in this book. Brooklyn is invited to game designer Grace's 50th birthday bash in her mansion in the country. The place is chock full of books and Brooklyn finds rare books throughout the book. The first night of the birthday bash, a seance is conducted as a joke, but when the lights come back on, Gabriel, just Gabriel, shows up and one of the guests is dead with cyanide poisoning. Brooklyn is once again PI Br...more
I put off reading this book as long as I could because this is my favorite series and I was practicing my delayed gratification skills. I think I made it 6 weeks, and then devoured the entire book in an afternoon.
Peril in Paperback is a fabulous, fun book and a really fun homage to the English House Mysteries. Derek wasn't much in this book at all, and I was prepared to sulk about that, but was very happily distracted by lots of Gabriel! Ms. Carlisle does a wonderful job of juggling the two men...more
Peril in Paperback is a fabulous, fun book and a really fun homage to the English House Mysteries. Derek wasn't much in this book at all, and I was prepared to sulk about that, but was very happily distracted by lots of Gabriel! Ms. Carlisle does a wonderful job of juggling the two men...more
Brooklyn is in the lake area for the 50th birthday bash of Grace, her neighbor Susie's eccentric aunt. Grace, a game designer, had her house built to her specifications including shifting hallways, trapdoors, a library, a music room, game room, a conservatory, as well as multiple "themed" guest room. During the party seance, a guest is killed and we are led on a twisting roller coaster ride full of secrets, attempted murder and reasons for "revenge"... Brooklyn's boyfriend, Derek isn't in on thi...more
Sep 25, 2012
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Brooklyn Wainright, a book repairer, is at a house party at Lake Tahoe with her neighbors Suzie and Vinnie at Suzie's aunt Grace's mansion. Grace, a game designer, is having a seance and Bella, one of her employees, is killed. Brooklyn helps find the murderer - Grace's partner's wife - while they are snowed in, Suzie and Vinnie - a couple - are given charge of a baby, the librarian falls in love with Grace's daughter, and Grace and her friend Ruth come "out of the closet."
Brooklyn is dropped into another mysterious murder. This time, she's at a fiftieth birthday party for inventor an bibliophile, Grace, aunt of Brooklyn's friend and neighbor, Suzie.
But all is not well with the birthday guests. Some of them actively seem to hate Grace. Then comes the ubiquitous announcement that Grace will have some Big News... that she'll tell all later. so why is her (very mean and nasty) lawyer there? And then one of the guests ends up dead.
But all is not well with the birthday guests. Some of them actively seem to hate Grace. Then comes the ubiquitous announcement that Grace will have some Big News... that she'll tell all later. so why is her (very mean and nasty) lawyer there? And then one of the guests ends up dead.
I have enjoyed this series thus far, but this installment, the sixth, fell flat. It held such promise-the classic house party in the country murder (although it just feels a bit forced when the location is not English). The characters introduced we're uninspired, and I missed Brooklyn's quirky family. Derick's absence, strangely enough, didn't bother me. The plot lacked finesse, and the book read like it was not a final draft. I will not abandon the series yet but will definitely give pause.
This was a good read. The setup was interesting and it was fun to watch everything unravel as guests entered the Victorian home. The mystery happens fast as you want to know what are they hiding and when the murders occur, it’s going to be a fun ride as Brooklyn does what she does best and that is amateur sleuthing. This is a good series, but I miss seeing Brooklyn in her natural element, that is, San Francisco.
I don't usually go for cozy series, but Ms Carlisle's heroine is a book repair genius from a very hippy family with a boyfriend formerly British Intel. Oh, and she faints at the sight of blood, is dismayed that her neighbors' cat holds a grudge against her, and cringes at the sound of her arch-nemesis Minka Laboeuf.
Another solid read...and there were several worms in this can at the end!
Another solid read...and there were several worms in this can at the end!
This is certainly the most Christie-esque installment in this series and quite a few of the regulars don`t make an appearance at all (or only very, very minor ones), so there is a whole bunch of new characters to shakes things up a bit. The downside is that because a lot of new characters have to be introduced (and the eccentric Lake Tahoe setting established) that it takes a while before things really start to get going, but the last 100 pages or so just race by. However, the very ending is som...more
Oct 01, 2012
Robin
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
those who like whodunit mysteries
Recommended to Robin by:
discovered first book in used bookstore
I would have never guessed whodunit and of course I am very biased about Brooklyn and Derek but was sighing by last page. Gabriel is always a great alternative but who wouldn't be swayed by multitudes of books and a great catch like Derek! :) I loved all the characters in "Peril" (except the villians). Although not partial to cats, I even liked Leroy! :):)
I always enjoy Ms. Calisle's novels like a warm cup of herbal tea or a great piece of chocolate. A guilty indulgence - thank you, Ms. Carlisle...more
I always enjoy Ms. Calisle's novels like a warm cup of herbal tea or a great piece of chocolate. A guilty indulgence - thank you, Ms. Carlisle...more
Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile mysteries always keep me turning the pages. Fun characters, lots and lots of books, plenty of food, people being killed and the mystery always gets solved, but not too soon and not too predictably. Peril in Paperback is #6 in the series and I'm glad she is turning out another one in June 2013.
I wasn't familiar with this series so it took me awhile to get caught up with who was who and the book started slow for me. It didn't pick up until page 75 when someone is murdered. Then towards the end it was rushed into one tight bow. I wanted to, but I did not find the main character likable. I was disappointed in the book.
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Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier Award winning author Kate Carlisle spent over twenty years working in television production as an Associate Director for game and variety shows, including The Midnight Special, Solid Gold and The Gong Show. She traveled the world as a Dating Game chaperone and performed strange acts of silliness on The Gong Show. She also studied acting and singing, toiled in vin...more
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