![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman is furious and leaves in a huff. Violet is interested - as an expert in transcendental literature, she’s very interested - but wants to have it authenticated first. The woman demands that Violet buy the book. Violet is days away from marrying David Rainwater, the handsome Seneca police chief she met in Book One, when a woman enters the shop and offers what appears to be a signed first edition of “Walden” in mint condition. The story is set at Christmas, but it is not a Christmas book. ![]() In “Crime and Poetry,” the author is Thoreau. The works of Emily Dickinson were relevant to solving the first crime, and each subsequent book has had a similar literary theme, with Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman providing background. It turned out that Grandma was faking and really wanted Violet to take over running the family bookstore, as it is part of Violet’s heritage to be the “Caretaker,” to nurture the supernatural birch tree that grows inside the store. In the first book, “Crime and Poetry,” Violet was a Chicago graduate student whose grandmother called her to rush to Cascade Springs, claiming a serious illness. “Crime and Covers” is fifth and last in Tallmadge author Amanda Flower’s Magical Bookshop mystery series set in Cascade Springs, a touristy village near Niagara Falls. ![]()
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