For bibliophiles who love Rita Mae Brown and Alexander McCall Smith
comes the latest witty story in the beloved series set at Virginia's
book-themed resort, Storyton Hall, from the New York Times bestselling
author. In this latest literary mystery, a killer inspired by Lord
Alfred Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot" doesn't stanza chance with
resort manager Jane Steward is on the case!
When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall,
Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to
kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a
southern gothic...
As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise
Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a
coveted greeting card contract. They're everywhere, scrawling verses on
cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling
the Poet's Walk, a series of trails named after famous authors. But the
Tennyson Trail leads to a grim surprise: a woman's corpse drifting in a
rowboat on a lake, posed as if she were "The Lady of Shallot."
When a second body is discovered, also posed as a poetic character, a
recurring MO emerges. Fortunately, Jane is well versed in sleuthing and
won't rest until she gives the killer a taste of poetic justice...