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I am currently reading Murder in the Mystery Suite, the first book in the Ellery Adams “A Book Retreat Mystery” series. The characters and setting are intriguing, I can see a lot of potential for this adventurous series. There are lots of mentions of classic mystery books, authors, and detectives to delight the avid mystery reader. I look forward to seeing how the protagonist’s twins help with or derail the investigation.
Mrs. Pratt shook her head. “No, dear, he wasn’t. After all, there’s no rousing the dead.”
Ellery Adams, Murder in the Mystery Suite
Summary
Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia is the storybook resort of Storyton Hall, catering to book lovers who want to get away from it all. To increase her number of bookings, resort manager Jane Steward has decided to host a Murder and Mayhem week so that fans of the mystery genre can gather together for some role-playing and fantasy crime solving.
But when the winner of the scavenger hunt, Felix Hampden, is found dead in the Mystery Suite, and the valuable book he won as his prize is missing, Jane realizes one of her guests is an actual murderer. Amid a resort full of fake detectives, Jane is bound and determined to find a real-life killer. There’s no room for error as Jane tries to unlock this mystery before another vacancy opens up…
