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Murder by the Bookend by Laura Gail Black
4.0

I got this one off Netgalley awhile ago but it got buried on my Kindle thanks to all the Book Bingo books I added a few months ago. I'm sorry I waited so long to finish it, it was a great book!

The second book in the Antique Bookshop series has Jenna presiding over the grand re-opening of the antique/used bookstore she inherited from her uncle. All seems to go well until one guest - Linus Talbot, an antique book expert - has several run-ins with other guests during the party. As the evening draws to a close, Jenna finds Linus dead in his car in the parking lot, murdered with his antique bookends and the only witness is his dog, Eddy. With several suspects and almost no clues, can Jenna find the murderer?

I enjoyed the first book in this series and came to really like Jenna, Mason and Rita and Keith and the juicy plot in this one (gasp THE DRAMA! clutches pearls) as it wound its way among the suspects and unraveled all the clues - which were right there all along but in the end the culprit was still surprising. Just as in the first book, I suspected and then discarded a suspect or two, only to be surprised at the end. *sigh* Fooled me again!

Another great entry into what's shaping up to be a really great series and I'm looking forward to the next book.