Fatalities and Folios

"When Poe Baxter fled her job as an English professor, she was thrilled to be launching into her career as an antiquarian book dealer with a trip to Edinburgh. But she soon finds that her queries into a particular book’s provenance are drawing some less desirable attention to her and her best friend......more

3 stelle e mezza Ho sentimenti contrastanti su questo libro... Mentre l'idea alla base mi è piaciuta, non altrettanto posso sempre dire della sua realizzazione. Tralasciando alcuni errori che un qualsiasi editing avrebbe visto (tipo sbagliare un pronome o lasciare una frase tronca a metà), l'azione s......more

I just didn't click with this one, the writing style seemed quite awkward and overt, everything anyone said or did was spelled out and explained and I like to be able to interpret more myself. There were several inconsistencies throughout, some of these might be explained away as the characters lying......more

A lighthearted romp through Scotland with 2 ladies aged in their 40s. Poe and Beattie are chasing after a very old and valuable book of ancient Scottish fairytales and stories about sea monsters. Loch Ness Monster anyone? For the record, Beatte is a transgender female although there was only one me......more

It had a lot of promise: rare books, librarians, mystery. But the plot didn't make sense to me. So they are going to buy a book, and to investigate the provenance, they visit the former owner, and find him dead. Then, they assume his murder has something to do with the book. Why? He sold it months a......more