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Confessions of an Amateur Sleuth

by Lynn Cahoon

A bookseller’s guide to sleuthing meets a marina-side murder

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A bookseller’s guide to sleuthing meets a marina-side murder

On Bainbridge Island, bookseller Meg Gates is trying to write a guide to detective work while navigating the gap between solving crimes and explaining how to solve them. Her writing-group connection with freelance food critic Lee Anderson turns into a murder investigation when he is found dead by the marina. The case places the island’s culinary circle under suspicion, drawing in Meg’s beau Dalton and the Mystery Crew at Island Books. The setup combines a bookselling community, an aspiring-author thread, and a classic suspect-focused mystery in a Pacific Northwest setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers who enjoy amateur-sleuth mysteries with a bookseller protagonist.
  • For readers interested in mysteries set in close-knit island communities and culinary circles.
  • For readers who like a writing or publishing thread alongside a murder investigation.

Themes

Amateur sleuthingBookselling and writingIsland communityFood criticism and culinary culture

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Book overview

Bainbridge Island bookseller, aspiring author, and amateur sleuth Meg (no relation to Bill) Gates investigates the murder of a crabby food critic in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon's latest Pacific Northwest-set mystery for fans of Kate Carlisle, Lorna Barrett, Jenn McKinlay, and Ellery Adams.

Twenty-something bookseller and sleuth Meg Gates has a confession: solving crimes may be easier than writing. She's been working on a guide to becoming a detective--but she's her own worst critic. She needs a how-to in order to write her how-to!

At the Bainbridge Island writers' group, she meets freelance food critic Lee Anderson, who invites her to join him for dinner at the Local Crab so he won't be suspected of reviewing the place. Lee is a bit of a crab himself and intends to do a hatchet job on the eatery.

Instead, someone does a job on the critic--he's found dead by the marina. Now Bainbridge's culinary elite are on the suspect list.

With help from her beau, Dalton, and the Mystery Crew at Island Books, Meg dons her sleuthing cap to solve the mystery du jour--before another murder is served cold . . .
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