Betrayal by the Book
- Author Michael D. Beil
- Narrator Taylor Meskimen
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 18 April 2023
- Run Time 8 hours and 34 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members.
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What to expect
A writer’s conference brings twelve-year-old Lark’s favorite writer—and a suspicious death—to Swallowtail Island, in the second book in this middle grade mystery series by an Edgar Award-nominated author.
Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer’s Conference. Lark’s ecstatic to be chosen as a “page” for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart.
But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn’t sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially not after it’s revealed the assistant recently completed a hot new novel and the file’s vanished from her computer.
Then Lark finds out the assistant had a bird—the match to the one she found hidden in her mom’s book—and she needs answers. It looks like Swallowtail Island still has secrets to reveal, and Lark’s going to uncover them.
In a gripping new chapter in the Swallowtail Legacy series, Mike D. Beil spins another clever clue hunt that seamlessly slips in alongside the best classics of middle grade mystery.
Critics Review
u201cEach characteru2026sparks with life. Larku2019s process and the reveals are perfectly pacedu2026Readers will be hooked.u201d
u201c[A] tightly plotted story of family intrigue and blackmail.u201d
u201cBoth a consuming race-against-the-clock mystery and a break-your-heart drama about making peace with the past.u201d
u201cFans of mystery will enjoy how Lark goes all out to solve this caseu2026and the author does a wonderful job of bringing this island and its inhabitants to life.u201d
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