Come back to Booktown for: Not the Killing Type

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I have read several of Lorna Barrett’s Booktown cozy mystery series in the past, so was happy to return to the fictional village full of bookstores (what kind of a dream town would that be?) with Not the Killing Type, book #7 in the series. So nice to get back to Tricia, her employees Mr. Everett and Pixie, and of course her cat, Miss Marple in the Haven’t Got a Clue mystery bookstore.

Of course Tricia has again stumbled over the body of the newly-deceased and is once again at the center of the mystery, trying to figure out whodunnit at the same time as helping sister Angelica with her election campaign and preparing for the Black Friday sale. The characters are familiar and fun and I really wish I could go visit the bookstore!

*One warning note, however: I did find a fat-phobic/fat-shaming subplot in this volume that rather surprised me. I don’t remember running across anything like that in any of the other books in the series. It’s not a big part of the book, but be prepared if that might bother you.

She yanked the door open and, to her horror, found…