Chapter and Curse, by Elizabeth Penney is a delightful 'first' in a new series! What fun it was! Molly Kimball, and her mother are mourning the death of a father and husband when a letter arrives from a relative in Cambridge, England. Would they be interested in coming to help save a book store that has been in the family for centuries? Of course they would, it's just what they need! The store in question is in debt, and under the threat of being bought out by a chain book store (gasp!). At the very first event (a reading by a popular poet) a body is discovered and things take off from there. We meet relatives Molly didn't even know she had, folks (of retirement age) who have been friends since college, and a nice little community of local stores. There are secrets, of course, and Clive (we don't like Clive) ... how it all fits together makes for a great read.

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