Brooklyn and her hunky new husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma’s first annual book festival. The entire town is involved, and Brooklyn’s mom, Rebecca, is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event-related duties, she’s got Brooklyn doing rare-book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, a musical to delight the festival-goers. If that wasn’t enough, she and Meg - Derek’s mom - will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards.

Brooklyn couldn’t be more proud of her mom’s do-it-all attitude, so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air.

Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn’s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode, and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.

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Kate Carlisle
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June 23, 2020
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Listening Length	10 hours and 5 minutes
Author	Kate Carlisle
Narrator	Susie Berneis
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Audible.com Release Date	June 23, 2020
Publisher	Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B086XL2GT3
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Joe Da Rold

Overwritten

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2020

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Pretty much everything I wrote in reviewing ’s Carlisle 2019’s Bibliophile Mystery still holds true: “there is little action,” “the murders feel like side stories instead of the main elements,” and “the gushy dialogue between Brooklyn and Derrick is repetitious and annoying.” Carlisle has been seriously overwriting in her recent books, and needs to cut her repetitious dialogue by half. In this year’s book, the main focus is a book festival being chaired by Brooklyn‘s mother in the town of Dharma. The theme of the festival is “Little Women,” and it is also the rare book Brooklyn repairs. Unfortunately, Carlisle has little of interest to tell us about the history of the book, only that the first edition was printed as two volumes. I normally borrow this series from my public library, but due to covid-19 closures, I purchased this one. It was a waste of money. I used to love this series, but not lately.

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Wonderful Mystery with Great Characters

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2020

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This is a wonderful series and this book just adds to it. It is well-written, well-plotted, and the characters – both main and supporting – are superb. You’d love to meet them all in person and become friends with them. Brooklyn Wainwright, a bookbinder and restoration expert and her drool-worthy, security expert husband, Derek Stone, have their mothers to protect as well as multiple murders to solve in this story.

It has long been a dream of Brooklyn’s to have a book festival in her hometown of Dharma, and her mother, Rebecca, has worked for the last two years to make that happen. The festival is within a few days of beginning when Brooklyn and Drake arrive from San Francisco where they now live. Brooklyn is bubbling with excitement and can hardly wait for it to begin. Yet, when they head into town to pick her mother up from a planning committee meeting, they witness a large, burly man harassing and threatening her. While Rebecca deals with him and doesn’t let him cow her, Brooklyn and Derek worry that it could lead to more. When more harassment occurs and a dead body is found in the committee room, they go into high gear to protect Rebecca.

Their chief suspect is the nasty businessman, Jacob Banyan, who continues to harass Rebecca. But, as more clues are discovered, more attempts on Rebecca’s life are made, and yet another body is discovered, they have more suspects than they know what to do with.

Is embezzlement at the bottom of crimes, or is it the first edition of Little Woman that Brooklyn is restoring – or is it something else altogether? You’ll just have to read this delightful mystery, meet all of the suspects, and figure it out for yourself. Can there be more than one perpetrator?

In addition to the crimes to solve, we get a delightful visit with both Brooklyn’s and Derek’s delightful families. Brooklyn’s parents are deadheads from the sixties who followed Guru Bob to the Sonoma Valley and set about creating their own community, Dharma. They are all now very wealthy and well-respected members of the community – even though Rebecca still gets into karma, chakra’s, spirit cleansing, etc. You’ll love them. If you get the chance, be sure to read the series from the beginning so you can get to know and learn to appreciate all of the cast of characters.

If you are looking for a delightful read, this is the one for you. Happy solving!

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SKGeise

Too many rich and beautiful characters!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021

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I can't figure out how or why, anyone could think this was a good story. It was dumb and, as one honest person said 🙄, BORING!!!! Mostly at the parts about .....Brooklyn and her 'hunky new husband, and she seemed to be thinking about him all of the time. They were married!!!
Her mother AND mother in law, are both total whack a doos. I'm just glad they didn't stage a seance!!!! Ugh. And EVERYONE is gorgeous, or handsome or rich! And it IS a cult. It's pretend but if one person is running the show, and that is helping him stay wealthy, there you go. Also, I'm pretty sure that these people are too young to be DEAD HEADS.
BUT because one of my favorite books Rebecca, is up next? I'll wait this out.
"Of course, darling," said Derek.
"Hey Babe," said Gabriel. Completely inappropriate.
"I'm really concerned, Gracious," said Guru Bob. " Gotta go dust my very important and costly collection of stuff now!!!"
UGH!!!!! Gracious??? What the.....just odd. As was his page and a half appearance in the story line. People were being attacked or murdered in his little Garden of Eden, setting!!! And he just wasn't around much.
So I will wait for "Little Black Book". We'll see.

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Deborah M Almada

A fun romp with Brooklyn and Derek in Dharma

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2020

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This was a fun book, a trip to Dharma and a chance to visit with pretty much everyone we love in this series, which since this is book 14, is quite a few! While including everyone was fun I do think it weaken the mystery aspect a bit. It was of course revolving around a book, but one of the "bad" guys was a little over the top. The climax also just a bit out there but overall a fun visit with Brooklyn, Derek and company.

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Marty TTop Contributor: Fantasy Books

Not much of a brain stumper, but fun all in all.

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

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Enjoyable multiple murder mystery set in Brooklyn's home town, Dharma. She is home for a book fair being chaired by her mother that she is going to do demonstrations for. There are multiple mysterious happenings along with murders. About a third of the book could be cut from repeatedly telling us how handsome Derek is and about his Bentley. Her mother and mother In law are in quite a bit of it, but the ridiculous antics from the wedding book weren't here, thank goodness. However their reaction to finding a body and repeated attempts and threats on Mom's life are giggled over and why would you call the police? left me questioning the mental abilities of these two women. Maybe a little less wine? The book repair is always interesting to me and we haven't had much of that in the past couple of books. All in all we get to see lots of past characters and have a mystery.

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