A Murder Like No Author

by Amy Lillard

Overview

Bookstore owner Arlo and her Friday Night Book Club sleuths are going to have to read between the lines to solve this mystery!

It's movie time in Sugar Springs and the whole town is pitching together to get the historical Coliseum Theater ready for the event of the year—the premiere of Missing Girl, local author Wally Harrison's bestselling novel turned film.

Thrilled to bring tourists to Sugar Springs, the town comes together to host the late author's event. But when a stranger arrives, boasting he has definitive proof that Wally didn't write Missing Girl…well, drama leaps from the page into real life. Mishaps start taking place around the theater—and then the stranger is discovered dead in his hotel room right before his press conference.

Can Arlo and her Friday night book club to sleuth out the killer and solve the mystery before the town's Hollywood dreams go up in smoke?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492687832
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	11/30/2021
Series:	Main Street Book Club Mysteries , #3
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Amy Lillard is the award-winning author of several Amish romances. She is a member of RWA, ACFW, NINC, and the Author’s Guild. She lives in Tulsa, OK.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a cozy series not to be missed as it has it all: a central character with her own conflicts, a senior citizen group that is nothing if not laser focused, a handsome chief of police who once had a thing with Arlo and the man who, as a teenager, broke them up on prom night. Oh, yes, it also has a well plotted murder mystery and excellent pacing that keeps pulling you through the book until you are surprised that the whole thing is over." — — Mystery and Suspense" — Mystery and Suspense

"The book club ladies make a winning team in an amusing tale replete with down-home atmosphere and romance." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-09-01
A bookstore owner tries her best to rein in the sleuthing of her murder mystery club.

Arlo Stanley’s nomadic parents let her attend high school in Sugar Springs, Mississippi, while they pursued their wandering ways. Now she’s settled down in the quaint town, where she owns a bookshop with her best friend, Chloe Carter, whom she saved from a murder rap when Mads Keller, Arlo’s high school love and now the police chief, arrested her for the murder of bestselling author Wally Harrison. Aiding in her detective adventures are Helen, Fern, and Camille, three older ladies whose Friday night book club has morphed into a successful mystery-solving endeavor despite Mads’ vocal disapproval. The bestselling book by the murdered Harrison, who was the father of Chloe’s son, has been made into a movie, and the town is frantically getting the old theater ready for a Hollywood-style opening night when Helen finds a guest at her B&B dead in the theater. The stranger, newly arrived in town, claimed he could prove that Harrison didn’t write the book and that it was his now-jailed assistant, Inna Kolisnychenko, who was the author. Because Chloe stands to make a lot of money for her son if the movie succeeds, she’s once more a person of interest, an unwelcome status that encourages Arlo and her cohorts to investigate. The high financial stakes mean there are plenty of suspects. Can Arlo pick out the killer from among them before becoming the next victim?

The book club ladies make a winning team in an amusing tale replete with down-home atmosphere and romance.

Kirkus Reviews