Includes A Front and Back Cover for You to Color!
By day, Florrie Fox manages Color Me Read bookstore in Georgetown, Washington D.C. By night, she creates her own intricately detailed coloring books for adults, filling the pages with objects that catch her eye. There’s plenty of inspiration in her new apartment—a beautiful carriage house belonging to Professor John Maxwell, Florrie’s boss. He offers the property to Florrie rent-free with one condition—she must move in immediately to prevent his covetous sister and nephew from trying to claim it.
When the professor’s nephew, Delbert, arrives, he proves just as sketchy as Florrie feared. But the following morning, Delbert has vanished. It’s not until she visits the third floor of the store that Florrie makes a tragic discovery—there’s a trap door in the landing, and a dead Delbert inside. The esteemed Professor Maxwell is an obvious suspect, but Florrie is certain this case isn’t so black and white. Doodling clues, she begins to consider other colorful characters on the scene, all with a motive for murder. With a killer drawing closer, Florrie will need to think outside the lines . . . before death makes his mark again.
Digital edition contains a link to the downloadable color-it-yourself cover art!
Wow! this was a total page turner, I have been holding off reading this as I wanted to use it for a challenge and now I am kicking myself!
Florrie Fox is the manager of Color Me Read and she is looking for a new apartment closer to the bookshop, her wonderful boss, Professor Maxwell, suddenly offers her the carriage house at his family mansion, under the proviso that she moves in today and makes it look well and truly lived in before 6 pm! With the help of her parents and sister she does it, but as she and her mother are about to leave (her father and sister having driven the rental truck away otherwise it could have been awkward), her mother is scared by two people looking in the windows! They turn out to be Maxwell's sister Lindy and her son, the unpleasant, scheming. thieving Delbert. Maxwell promises Florrie that Delbert will be dealt with by Monday, unfortunately for Maxwell Delbert ends up dead in a prohibition liqour hideout and now Maxwell has been arrested for his murder!
Florrie is positive he has nothing to do with it so she is putting her artists eye to the situation and she is determined to see Maxwell freed and the true murderer jailed!
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