Murder on the Poet’s Walk

For bibliophiles who love Rita Mae Brown and Alexander McCall Smith comes the most recent witty story within the beloved collection set at Virginia’s book-themed resort, Storyton Corridor, from the New York Instances bestselling writer. On this newest literary thriller, a killer impressed by Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “The Girl of Shallot” doesn’t stanza likelihood with resort supervisor Jane Steward is on the case!
When corpses clutching poems start turning up round Storyton Corridor, Jane Steward is on the path of somebody exercising poetic license to kill and is decided to maintain her fairytale resort from turning right into a southern gothic…
 
As Jane eagerly anticipates the marriage of her greatest pal Eloise Alcott, Storyton Corridor is overrun with poets on the town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They’re in every single place, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins within the studying rooms or looking for inspiration strolling the Poet’s Stroll, a collection of trails named after well-known authors. However the Tennyson Path results in a grim shock: a girl’s corpse drifting in a rowboat on a lake, posed as if she have been “The Girl of Shallot.”
 
When a second physique is found, additionally posed as a poetic character, a recurring MO emerges. Happily, Jane is nicely versed in sleuthing and received’t relaxation till she offers the killer a style of poetic justice…
“Readers will benefit from the plot twists and the literary body.” —Booklist