Under the watchful gaze of a mysterious laird and the irascible villagers who are suspicious of the strangers in their midst, Brooklyn and Derek must decode the secrets in Rebecca to keep their friend’s past from destroying their future…. With a death on their doorstep, Brooklyn and Derek page through the little black book where they discover clues that will take them to the shadows of a medieval Scottish castle on the shores of Loch Ness. Claire believes both her own life and her aunt’s are in danger and worries that some complications from her past are coming back to haunt her.īut just as Brooklyn and Derek begin to investigate, a man who Claire thinks was following her is found murdered, stabbed with a priceless jeweled dagger.

Among her aunt’s belongings, Claire found the receipt for the package that wound up with Brooklyn and Derek. Brooklyn met Claire when the two women worked as expert appraisers on the television show This Old Attic. Brooklyn appraised books on the show and Claire’s expertise was in antique British weaponry, but they bonded over their shared love of gothic novels.Ĭlaire reveals that during a recent trip to Scotland she discovered her beloved aunt was missing and that her home had been ransacked. The day after the book arrives, Claire Quinn shows up at Brooklyn and Derek’s home. The book is a rare British first edition of Rebecca, and there’s no return address on the package. San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is on the case when a rare edition of Rebecca leads to murder in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series.īrooklyn and her hunky husband, security expert Derek Stone, have just returned from a delightful trip to Dharma, where the construction of their new home away from home is well underway, when a little black book arrives in the mail from Scotland. I’m intrigued by this one because it’s about the classic gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, which I enjoyed as an audiobook read by Anna Massey. These book covers always intrigue me, especially the cats.

A high end finish by kate carlisle