Secrets and Scrabble, Book 1: Murder at Pirate's Cove

by Josh Lanyon

Ebook, 2020

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

JustJoshin Publishing, Inc. (2020)

Description

First in an adorable new series! Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion, and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he's inherited both a failing bookshop and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate's Cove in Rhode Island, it's full steam ahead! Sure enough, the village is charming, its residents amusingly eccentric, and widowed police chief Jack Carson is decidedly yummy (though possibly as straight as he is stern). However, the bookstore is failing, the mansion is falling down, and there's that little drawback of finding rival bookseller-and head of the unwelcoming-committee-Trevor Maples dead during the annual Buccaneer Days celebration. Still, it could be worse. And once Police Chief Carson learns Trevor was killed with the cutlass hanging over the door of Ellery's bookstore, it is.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member jetangen4571

M/M cozy-mystery, law-enforcement, family-dynamics, friendship, bookseller, small-business, small-town, island-life, amateur-sleuth, murder, murder-investigation, verbal-humor, situational-humor*****

I had gotten book three in the series from NetGalley and liked it so much that I got this and the

next one in audio. The story truly follows all the cozy criteria and has a great plot, fascinating characters, and laughs. It also has a police detective, a bookshop owner (and former professional TV actor) named Ellery (like Ellery Queen mystery writer!), a frenetic puppy named Watson (is there any other kind?), the Scallywags, and the Silver Sleuths. It's set in an island off New Jersey (USA) that's accessible by ferry (that's why they can have cars). Ellery inherited the bookshop and rundown Dutch Colonial from an ancient of his father and has only been a resident for three months when he finds the first murder victim in his store. And then he gets convicted in the local press, so what else can be done but learn to become a sleuth? Loved it!
Matt Haynes is the laid back voice actor who really knows how to underplay the laughs.

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LibraryThing member Carol420

Cozies are not my favorite kind of stories, but one thing they always have going for them is that you can put your money on things turning out okay and the good guys getting their happy ever after. Plus...if Josh Lanyon has her name on the cover...you know 100% that it’s going to be an

outstanding story. The characters will be engaging...the dialogue intelligent...and the main characters are not going to do anything making them too stupid to live. I really enjoyed this great start to a new series...at least for me. So....I have my tea... I have my new to me series and I’m going to spend some time in Pirate’s Cove at Ellery’s bookstore. Feel free to come and join me.

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Language

English

Original publication date

2020-02-29

ISBN

9781945802614

Local notes

Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he's inherited both a failing bookstore and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate's Cove on Buck Island, Rhode Island, it's full steam ahead. However, the bookstore is failing, the mansion is falling down, and there's that little drawback of finding rival bookseller--and head of the unwelcoming-committee--Trevor Maples dead during the annual Buccaneer Days celebration.