TWICE TOLD TAIL

By Ali Brandon

This book takes readers back into the amazing shop of Pettistone’s Fine Books, where we meet up once again with Darla Pettistone, along with Hamlet, her black cat, who isn’t the only ‘shadow lurking around home and hearth in Brooklyn.’

Darla is gearing up for the busiest shopping season of the year. She’s also just begun her online store, where one anonymous bidder is offering a really high price for an antique book, which has made Darla a bit confused.

Darla’s friend, Detective Fee Reese, has asked her to help his fiancée with some of the girly stuff that occurs when getting ready for a wedding. So Darla and her other friend Jake (a nickname for Jacqueline) who is a former police officer and now a Private Eye, takes the bride, Connie, to a bridal salon to help her pick out a gown. Unfortunately, a gown is not the only thing that they stumble over. Connie actually believes that she found a dead body in the dressing room; upside is, she’s just a woman in an overly tight gown who has fainted.

After that little experience, they head with Connie to the antique shop (located next to the bookstore) so the bride can find ‘something old.’ But this time when they find a dead body, it’s for real. The owner is dead as a doornail by the cash register.

A police investigation, a distraught bride, a collectible book that continues to shoot up in value, a black cat that looks a lot like Hamlet wandering the block and, last but not least, a man who has been seen more than once watching the building—all of these pieces come together to bring about a mystery that is completely and utterly exciting and fun to read!