The Book of Candlelight

When you have the ability to read people and determine what is bothering them, then recommend books for them to read, it's a good thing you are bookstore owner. In The Book of Candlelight by Ellery Adams, Nora Pennington has just such an ability. With the constant flow of visitors to her shop during the rainy season in western North Carolina, her book store is busy. (The Book of Candlelight will be released by Kensington Publishing Corp. on January 28.)

Despite the weather, Nora bikes over to the flea market and purchases a lovely bowl from Danny, a Cherokee potter. The next day with the rain continuing to fall, a bridge collapses and in the churning water is the body of the potter. Viewed as an accident, Nora doesn't believe it and enlists her Secret, Book & Scone Society friends to help discover who killed Danny and why. 


When she discovers some of his older, more valuable pots at the renovated Inn of the Mist and Roses, she worries the new owners have taken advantage of him. Lou and Patty claim not to know Danny, but Nora is not so sure. 

While she decides to investigate, a series of troubling incidents happen to her friends. Her friend June's home is spray painted with a angry red letters making a racial slur, then someone throws a brick through Nora's shop window and she worries that her other friends might be next. 

As Nora learns more about the Inn and its history, she soon realizes why the death and the other incidents are occurring. She tries to keep anyone else from being injured or killed, especially Danny's young widow, her new employee Sheldon and her other two friends who are part of the Secret, Book & Scone Society.