First, it offers a great, thought-provoking whodunit that keeps the reader guessing. Ripped from the Pages by Kate Carlisle excels in the three things that define a good cozy mystery series. It's the reader's choice whether all the New Age accoutrements are charming or a cause for eye-rolling. It's an intriguing setup, but the characters are mostly on the thin side, so it's hard to care what happens to them. Brooklyn turns sleuth when a threatening stranger arrives in Dharma. Guru Bob, the commune leader, is the descendant of one of those French migr s. in secret, as the French wanted to save it from the Nazis. What's more, the cave contains a treasure trove of European artwork transported to the U.S. Not surprisingly, there's a body in the cave, the mummified remains of a Frenchman. Brooklyn and her hunky boyfriend, English security expert Derek Stone, are in Dharma, Calif., when a cave is opened on the property of the Sonoma County winery run by the commune where Brooklyn's parents live. Rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright knows as much about finding corpses as she does about books, as shown in Carlisle's uneven ninth bibliophile mystery (after 2014's The Book Stops Here).
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