V. M. Burns
Valerie (V. M.) Burns is a mystery writer whose novels and short stories have been finalists for the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, and Next Generation Indie Book awards. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, and the Crime Writers’ Association. She is an adjunct professor in the writing popular fiction program at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Connect with her at VMBurns.com.
All Books By V. M. Burns
Bookclubbed to Death
- By: V. M. Burns
- Narrator: Kate Rudd
- Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(126 ratings)
V. M. Burns returns with the latest book in her popular Mystery Bookstore mysteries set in a Michigan bookshop specializing in selling murder mysteries.
When the bookshop she owns becomes a crime scene, mystery writer Samantha Washington discovers there is such a thing as bad publicity.
After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately runs afoul of the club leader, Delia Marshall, a book reviewer who can make or break careers–something Sam can ill afford with her debut historical mystery soon to be published.
But the next morning, Sam opens her shop to find the unpleasant woman dead on the floor, bashed with a heavy–apparently lethal–tome: The Complete Works of Agatha Christie. While Sam is busy writing her latest British historical mystery in which the queen mother is suspected in the murder of a London Times correspondent, a pair of ambitious cops suspect Sam of the real-life crime.
When she gathers Nano Jo and their friends from the Shady Acres Retirement Village to review the case, they discover that every one of the Mavens had a motive. With her novel about to hit the stores, Sam must find out who clubbed Delia before a judge throws the book at her.
... Read moreThe Plot is Murder
- By: V. M. Burns
- Narrator: Kate Rudd
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 28, 2017
- Language: English
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3.73(1600 ratings)
Samantha Washington has dreamed of owning her own mystery bookstore for as long as she can remember. Now that she’s preparing for her store’s grand opening, she’s also realizing another dream-penning a cozy mystery that’s set in England between the wars. While Samantha hires employees and fills the shelves, her pen has quick-witted Lady Penelope Marsh, long-overshadowed by her beautiful sister Daphne, refusing to lose the besotted Victor Carlston to her sibling’s charms and stepping in to solve the murder of one of Daphne’s other suitors… But as Samantha indulges her imagination, the unimaginable happens in real life. A shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, and the police suspect her-after all, the owner of a mystery bookstore might know a thing or two about murder, right? Aided by her feisty grandmother and an ensemble of colorful retirees, Samantha is determined to close the case before her store opens. But will she live to conclude her story now that the killer has a revised ending in mind for he
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