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Includes A Front and Back Cover for You to Color!
With Halloween just around the corner, the fall colors in Georgetown are brilliant. As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from Spooktacular Ghost Stories. But the celebrity medium arrives for the event in hysterics, insisting she just saw a bare foot sticking out of a rolled-up carpet in a nearby alley. Is someone trying to sweep murder under the rug? Florrie calls in her policeman beau, Sergeant Eric Jonquille, but the carpet corpse has disappeared without a trace.
Then in the middle of her reading, Hilda chillingly declares that she feels the killer’s presence in the store. Is this a publicity stunt or a genuine psychic episode? It seems there’s no happy medium. When a local bibliophile is soon discovered missing, a strange mystery begins to unroll. Now it’s up to Florrie and Jonquille to expose a killer’s true colors…
Story Locale: Georgetown, Washington, DC
Murder Outside the Lines is the third in an innovative new series by New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis. The Pen & Ink Mysteries combine three elements cozy readers love: creative projects, a quaint bookstore and great mysteries.
Krista Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva mysteries, which have received three Agatha
Award nominations and regularly appear on the B&N bestseller lists. Previously published by Berkley, the Domestic Diva Mysteries are also now being published by Kensington.
The books in the Pen & Ink Mystery Series each feature covers that readers can color-in and personalize themselves, and digital editions contain a link to the downloadable color-it-yourself cover art!
Krista Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries and the Paws & Claws Mysteries. Several of her books have been nominated for the Agatha Award. Krista lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with two cats and a brood of dogs. Her friends and family complain about being guinea pigs for her recipes, but she notices they keep coming back for more. Please visit her at www.kristadavis.com.
Author Residence: Dublin, VA
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Praise for the Pen & Ink Mysteries by Krista Davis:
“Clearly this book was written by a genius.” —Buzzfeed on Color Me Murder
“The mystery is pleasantly twisty, but Davis is more interested in introducing her appealing cast of characters – whose backstories lend themselves nicely to future plots for this carefully crafted cozy series.” —Publishers Weekly
“Even those not tempted to take a pen or colored pencil to the cover of this novel will find themselves intrigued by this witty and artful mystery.” —Kings River Life Magazine on The Coloring Crook
“A terrific start to what promises to be a clever series.” —Suspense Magazine on Color Me Murder