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Lorna Barrett

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December 31

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Mystery & Thrillers

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The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorna Barrett’s name on the New York Times Bestseller list, but it’s her talent -- whether writing as Lorna, or L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett -- that keeps her there. This multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square Mystery series and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s). Check out the links to all her works here: http://www.lornabarrett.com

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Average rating: 3.81 · 60,438 ratings · 5,840 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Murder is Binding (Booktown Mystery, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 12,040 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bookmarked for Death (Booktown Mystery, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 6,718 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bookplate Special (Booktown Mystery, #3) 3.80 avg rating — 5,541 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sentenced to Death (Booktown Mystery, #5) 3.86 avg rating — 4,528 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chapter & Hearse (Booktown Mystery, #4) 3.83 avg rating — 4,568 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on the Half Shelf (Booktown Mystery, #6) 3.82 avg rating — 3,918 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not the Killing Type (Booktown Mystery, #7) 3.82 avg rating — 3,322 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book Clubbed (Booktown Mystery, #8) 3.83 avg rating — 3,150 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fatal Chapter (Booktown Mystery, #9) 3.91 avg rating — 2,810 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Title Wave (Booktown Mystery, #10) 3.81 avg rating — 2,748 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Former Sheriff's Office detective Ray Davenport now owns the Wood U gift shop on Victoria Square, but it’s his talented younger daughters who steal the show with their displays and packaging designs. The girls believe they can earn money with their window-dressing skills for the other businesses on the Square, but the only merchant who hires them conspires to reap the rewards of their labor wi Read more of this blog post »

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Booktown Mystery (17 books)
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Lorna Barrett answered Bettina Johnson's question: I just completed A Deadly Deletion, Lorna and I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it. I did NOT see that ending coming…wow. Can’t wait to start the next book! Did you know all along who the “bad guy” would be? Yes. I usually don't know who the bad guy is until halfway through the book, but this time I did.
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Lorna Barrett answered Sherrie's question: Is Ian and Tricia going to finally make amends in Book 17? They started off ok but ended in a rocky start in Book 16 when he becomes Sheriff, and she thinks he is just like another of her old boyfriends. I like the way you handled Pixie and what had happened in her past in Book 16. I don't want to give a spoiler, but Ian and Tricia are not enemies in Book #17, A QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER, which I'm writing right now. It will be out sometime next summer. (The author is always the last to know dates and things.) Tricia has a "pupil" See Full Answer
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“Over the years more than one friend or acquaintance had asked Tricia why she was so enamored of the mystery genre. How could she actually enjoy stories that celebrated violent death? They had it all wrong. The books didn't celebrate death, but triumph for justice. Too often real-life villains got away with murder, but in fiction, justice was usually assured.

Sometimes she wished life better imitated art.”
― Lorna Barrett, Bookmarked for Death

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“Deception wasn’t Tricia’s strongpoint. Not when she’d been seven and blamed Angelica for a vase she’d broken, nor when coming up with excuses to avoid dating high school jocks who couldn’t spell, let alone comprehend, Sherlock Holmes.”
― Lorna Barrett, Murder is Binding

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“If you win, you win. If you lose, you don’t win—but that don’t make you a loser, either.”
― Lorna Barrett, Poisoned Pages

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Which short series (less than 10 books) would you be interested in reading as a group? You may use this link to see more information about each series.

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Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries by Julia Spencer-Fleming

6 votes, 26.1%

Wine Country by Ellen Crosby

4 votes, 17.4%

Tracers by Laura Griffin

2 votes, 8.7%

Evan Delaney by Meg Gardiner

2 votes, 8.7%

Carolyn Sullivan by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

2 votes, 8.7%

Smoky Barrett by Cody McFadyen

2 votes, 8.7%

Kate Burkholder by Linda Castillo

2 votes, 8.7%

Booktown Mystery by Lorna Barrett

1 vote, 4.3%

Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy

1 vote, 4.3%

Suspicion by Barbara Parker

1 vote, 4.3%

Nikki Heat by Richard Castle

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Britt Montero by Edna Buchanan

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Samantha Adams by Sarah Shankman

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Alison Reynolds by J.A. Jance

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Constable Molly Smith by Vicki Delany

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Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths

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