Gloria's Reviews > For Whom the Book Tolls

For Whom the Book Tolls is a great debut book and I look forward to future books by Laura Gail Black. In this story, Jenna Quinn left her home of Charlotte, North Carolina, to live and work for her Uncle Paul in his apartment and bookstore in Hoke's Folly, NC until she can get her feet under her. She lost her job, home, friends, fiance, and bank account paying her attorney after being falsely accused of embezzlement and murder at the marketing firm where she worked. Unfortunately, bad things follow her when she finds her uncle's body at the bottom of the stairs leading from the apartment down to the store. Now, she is a suspect again. Unbeknownst to her, she is his beneficiary and so a suspect in his murder. Things get stickier when a man shows up saying he is an illegitimate son of her uncle. She has her hands full as she sets out to find the real murderer and wait on evidence to prove that her uncle did not have children. This is a very good mystery with realistic characters, a believable plot, and plenty of suspects in this small town setting. Jenna does make a few friends and there might even be romance again in her future.
I received a complimentary ARC from Crooked Lane Books through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine only.