I love the interesting cover, and the plot of murder at a mystery writers convention showed great promise, but I had to force myself to read this book. The characters are cardboard, main character Claire Malloy is just THERE and seems totally unable to pull things together or solve anything, and the dialogue has a very stilted, formal style ("why did you respond so virulently?"-what does that mean?). I went from this slow-moving story to an action-packed, page-turner mystery by Harlan Coben and was thrilled to read it!In Farberville, Arkansas a mystery writers convention is taking place at the local college with 5 successful authors being featured (and pampered). Bookseller Claire Malloy unexpectedly must coordinate everything. One author's cat disappears, their feared and disliked editor disappears, and a college attendee dies in a suspicious car accident. How can Claire make a success out of all this?
#13 in the small bookstore owner Claire Mallory set in the small college town of Farberville, Arkansas. The town is playing host to its first ever mystery convention which is held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. When the original organizer is hospitalized, Claire Malloy finds herself in charge of the two day convention. Soon, everything that can go wrong, does with Claire in the middle of trying to keep the demanding authors happy and the convention to run. Then there is a murder.The overall tone is light mainly because of the cast of characters topped off by Claire's snarky caustic wit and Caron, her 16 year old daughter, who is the drama queen of all drama queens.
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