Search - One Book in the Grave (Bibliophile, Bk 5)

Brooklyn is commissioned to restore a rare copy of "Beauty and the Beast". She recognizes it as one she once owned and had given to friends as an engagement gift. Sadly Max, the future groom is killed in a terrible accident....or was it an accident? How did the gift she had given the couple end up at the Covington Library? In her quest to find answers, Brooklyn is again involved with murder when she finds a rare book dealer dead....her tires slashed with a knife that belonged to her dead friend Max. I really enjoyed this book and it is in my opinion, one of the better additions to the series.

Let me start out by saying this is the first book in this series and by this author that I read. Since I didn’t start reading the series from book one, I think my review might be considered a bit skewed and let me apologize to this author’s fans but this is only one person’s opinion.

I’m sorry to say, I didn’t finish the book. I just couldn’t do it! Talk about a TSTL heroine, well this one takes the prize! Not sure how old this woman is but talk about acting like a teenaged girl. Her boyfriend is in security and another man in the story by the name of Gabriel, is a man with a shady past. Both men carry guns. For some reason, when Brooklyn discovers this fact, she is shocked, surprised and seemingly angry by this fact. The conversation between all the characters is stilted and cold…it just doesn’t flow. The plot, what there was of it, was choppy and just didn’t come together.

I doubt that my opinion would be any different had I read the other books in the series first. I couldn’t find anything in what I read to redeem this book for me. I don’t plan on reading the other books in the series and I don’t plan on reading anything more by this author.