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02302aam a2200313 i 4500 001 E5E9773EAF8511EEB3273D3A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240110010011 008 231031s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1639106928 020 $a 9781639106929 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Blackburn, Maggie. 245 1 $a Once upon a seaside murder / $c Maggie Blackburn. 250 $a Trade Paperback Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Crooked Lane, $c 2023. 300 $a 309 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a beach reads mystery, A ; $v 2 520 $a here's no place like home for the holidays, even if home is sleepy, beachside Brigid's Island, NC. During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers--and Beach Reads is no exception. But bookseller Summer Merriwether's Christmas cheer turns to cringing fear when she uncovers a deadly secret about her late mother--a secret someone will kill to keep. When the local library hosts a cozy mystery panel discussion, Summer learns that one of the authors on the panel based her book on an actual murder that shook Brigid's Island thirty-five years before. Worse, she soon learns that her dearly missed mother, Hildy, took a disturbingly deep interest in the case, going so far as to collect clippings and keep a journal of the dark doings. This doesn't jibe with Summer's memories of her usually cheery mother at all. Tidings get worse when Summer learns of her long-lost biological family's involvement in the crime...and still worse when the life of the book's author is threatened. With the help of Hildy's plucky book club, Summer puts her scholarly smarts to work on protecting the cozy author and solving the decades-old murder. But this ghost from Christmas past may still be deadly in the present, and if she can't find the killer, Summer's future will be brief. 541 $d 20231116. 650 $a Booksellers and bookselling $x Fiction. 650 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Christmas $x Fiction. 655 7 $a Cozy mystery fiction. 830 2 $a A beach reads mystery ; $v 2. 941 $a 1 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20240110010020.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E5E9773EAF8511EEB3273D3A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search