The Paper Pirate

The Paper Pirate

By Dawn McIntyre

Genre:-Cosy Mystery

Pages:-276

Blurb:-As if the looming deadline to pay off a balloon mortgage isn't enough to worry about, the five partners who own the small town book store The Paper Pirate find themselves menaced by a stealthy crook who systematically searches first the shop, then each of their homes. Beacause he takes nothing and barely leaves traces of his presence, the police, can't be of much help. and simply promise to keep an eye on Charlie Santorelli, Lavinia "Vinnie" Holcomb, Al Rockleigh, Felicia Cocolo and Lenora Stern.

 It's a mystery to them but the reader knows that Rick Foster, a shady rare-books dealer and his sidekick Nina Bartov are on the hunt for a particular old volume that sits unnoticed on a shelf in The Paper Pirate's used book section. It's an obscure early work of the not=terribly-successful author Benjamin Conway, and it's badly defaced-but a very wealthy man is willing to pay Rick a half a million dollars for it. Seems an ancestor of his eluded the henchmen of a nineteenth-century dictator by escaping to New York, and eventually took refuge in the northeastern Pennsylvania countryside. Before he was captured and killed, he'd scribbled as much evidence of the tyrant's sins as he could fit into the blank spaces of a copy of The Stargazer at Dawn and hid it where he hoped his comrades would find it. They never did.

 The five friends also are members of a writers' group, and each of them has a secret. One is penning an erotic novel on the sky, another hides a painful estrangement with an only child, and a deadly teenaged mistake causes a third to sabotage her every chance to be unpublished actually is a one-hit-wonder with a thirty-year-0ld best-selling novel followed by a crippling literary failure, and the last has a family with criminal connections-he's spent half a lifetime avoiding them.

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My Review:-I felt like I had to review this book with it being about a book store. Five friends own a book store between them but things have been hard and they are struggling to find the money to pay the next payment that is due on the loan. But there is a way to pay off the loan altogether. Only problem is, they don't know that there is a book in the store that is worth half a million dollars. Each of the characters had a secret that they didn't want the others to know about. Why?

I found this a quick and enjoyable read.