Read on Arrival: A Bookmobile Mystery
by Page, Nora
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1643850032
- ISBN 13
- 9781643850030
- Seller
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Johnson City, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Crooked Lane Books, 2019-05-06. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. This is a book club edition! The covers are very clean with light shelf wear. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!
Reviews
On May 17 2019, a reader said:
Read on Arrival is the second novel in A Bookmobile Mystery series. While it can be read alone, I believe it is best to indulge in Better Off Read first. Read on Arrival is nicely written with steady pacing and unique characters. Cleo Watkins is 75 ¾ and has no intention of retiring from her position as head librarian at Catalpa Springs Library. She has discovered she enjoys tootling about the countryside in her bookmobile-Words on Wheels. Cleo has Leanna, her assistant, to keep an eye on things at the library for her. There are a variety of quirky characters in the story ranging from Cleo's gentleman friend, Henry to Deputy Gabby Honeywell to Rhett, the bookmobile's Persian cat mascot. Catalpa Springs is a typical small Southern town where gossip spreads faster than maple syrup on a hot stack of pancakes and there are some unusual residents like Dixie. Humor is rampant throughout the story. It reminded me of the slapstick comedy reminiscent of I Love Lucy and The Three Stooges. There is plenty of activity in Read on Arrival with Dixie's murder, death threats on coffin shapes items, Cleo investigating, and Belle trying to ruin the library. I did have to remind myself that this was a work of fiction (reality cannot be applied). Someone cannot get away with keeping a book checked out for 40 years today (twenty years ago, but not now). The situation with Belle is also unrealistic. Libraries do wish to attract readers, but they will not toss out their books to accomplish it (or rip off the covers because the colors do not match their color scheme). The mystery was straightforward, and I easily identified the killer (it was a piece of cake). There are pointed clues and a limited number of suspects. My favorite phrase from Read on Arrival is "don't wake the slumbering human bed" from Rhett, the cat. Read on Arrival is a lighthearted, humorous cozy mystery with killer bees, death threats, a delinquent book, mimes, two dead bodies, a sleuthing librarian, an "innobrarian", and a mascot named Rhett.
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Details
- Seller
- Book Lovers Warehouse (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 211718
- Title
- Read on Arrival: A Bookmobile Mystery
- Author
- Page, Nora
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1643850032
- ISBN 13
- 9781643850030
- Publisher
- Crooked Lane Books
- Date Published
- 2019-05-06
- Size
- 5x1x8
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
- X weight
- 14 oz
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- Shelf Wear
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