A Dark and Stormy Murder
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An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime in the first Writer's Apprentice mystery. Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any real-life villains... Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana. But Lena’s fortune soon changes for the worse. First, she lands in the center of small town gossip for befriending the local recluse. Then, she stumbles across one thing that a Camilla Graham novel is never without—a dead body, found on her new boss’s lakefront property. Now Lena must take a page out of one of Camilla’s books to hunt down clues in a real crime that seems to be connected to the novelist’s mysterious estate—before the killer writes them both out of the story for good...
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5 primary books6 released booksWriter's Apprentice Mystery is a 6-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Julia Buckley.
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This is the pound of book that makes me want to write. There is some of the writing process and some of the book being written. That was fun. The house is amazing to imagine. So many good characters, Sam, Camilla, Allison, the general store owners, and more. There are a few mysteries that have to be resolved. Some get resolved and some make progress. This is an amazing start to a wonderful series. I am so glad I have discovered this one.
Two stars for “it was okay.”
It tried to be a gothic-flavored tale about a secluded writer with a mysterious neighbor. It actually was a predictable story with a friendly writer and a grieving neighbor...the mystery pops up at about 40% and the murderer is easily spotted (I kept thinking they must be a red herring because it was so easy).
I did enjoy the Indiana setting and the mentor/friend relationship between the two women. There were some major plot detail fails (for example, the author met and married her husband on her book tour for her first novel, but they only had one child two years after marriage, whose life and death was memorialized in her first novel....uh....) which made it hard to believe the backstories. I will consider trying another book from this series. Also I had no clue why a character suddenly went all Amazon on some policemen who were simply doing their job.
Content: a few profanities, a couple bad swears, murder
