title: Homicide in Hardcover: A Bibliophile Mystery
author:  Kate Carlisle 
description: <b>4.5 Stars -- Reviewer's Choice nominee for Best First Mystery Novel</b> "This first in a new series is going to launch Carlisle to a bestselling position and have readers looking forward to the next installment of delightfully eccentric characters, droll dialogue and a meticulously planned crime. Bibliophile heroine Brooklyn Wainwright is brilliant, feisty and funny."<br /> --<i>RT Book Review Magazine</i>
zlib_text: **PRAISE FOR KATE CARLISLE’S FIXER-UPPER MYSTERIES**
  
   _ **Crowned and Moldering**_
  
  “Kate Carlisle uses her trademark clever wit and complex plotting to pen a
  mystery that can only be solved by a smart, funny, and courageous heroine such
  as Shannon Hammer . . . [an] immensely satisfying page-turner of mystery.”
  
  —Jenn McKinlay, _New York Times_ bestselling author of the Library Lover’s,
  Cupcake Bakery, and Hat Shop Mysteries
  
  “Sleuth Shannon Hammer knows her way around a building site and a murder—I
  fell for this feisty take-charge heroine and readers will, too.”
  
  —Leslie Meier, _New York Times_ bestselling author of the Lucy Stone Mysteries
  
  _**This Old Homicide**_
  
  “Carlisle’s second contractor cozy continues to please with its smart,
  humorous heroine and plot. Fans of Sarah Graves’s Home Repair Is Homicide
  series will appreciate this title as a solid read-alike.”
  
  — _Library Journal_
  
  “Another dynamic series . . . the townspeople are fun and bring a lot to the
  already-interesting s