A Dark and Twisting Path
Mass Market
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · July 31, 2018
Writer's apprentice Lena London is happily working on a new collaboration with her idol and bestselling suspense novelist and friend Camilla Graham, but her joy is short-lived when a dark cloud descends upon the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana...
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- Who it’s for
- A cozy writing partnership turns perilous as suspicion closes in on Lena’s boyfriend.
- Themes
- Murder investigation, False accusations, Threats and danger
- Pacing
- Fast
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Writer's apprentice Lena London is happily working on a new collaboration with her idol and bestselling suspense novelist and friend Camilla Graham, but her joy is short-lived when a dark cloud descends upon the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana... Lena's best friend, Allison, is in a panic. On a walk in the woods by her home, Allison discovers the body of her mail carrier, an argumentative man who recently had a falling out with Allison's husband.
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Lena quickly realizes that Allison has nothing to worry about as the murder weapon points to a different suspect altogether: Lena's embattled boyfriend, Sam West. Sam was cleared of his wife's murder when she was found alive, and now someone is trying to make him look guilty again. Surveillance video of a break-in at his house shows a shadowy figure trying to incriminate him by stealing the weapon from his desk. Lena and Camilla work on a suspect list, but a threatening note and a violent intrusion at Graham House prove that the devious killer has decided to write them into the plot.
A Sleuth’s Shadow
A cozy writing partnership turns perilous as suspicion closes in on Lena’s boyfriend.
Come here for
- An amateur sleuth working beside her suspense-novelist idol
- A murder investigation tangled with suspicion and threats
Expect
- A layered mystery with personal stakes
- A quaint Indiana town under a dark cloud
Where it sits
| Cozy Mysteries | 86% |
|---|---|
| Amateur Sleuths | 30% |
| Romantic Suspense | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women Detectives
- Cozy Mysteries
- Amateur Sleuths
- Authors
- Julia Buckley
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- July 31, 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Murder investigation · False accusations · Threats and danger
- Reading lane
- Women Detectives