Always a great treat reading anything written by Kate! I didn't figure it out until near the end. ( )

Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma’s first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn’s mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event related duties, she’s got Brooklyn doing rare book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, the musical to delight the festival goers. If that wasn’t enough, she and Meg—Derek’s mom—will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards.

Brooklyn couldn’t be prouder of her mom’s do-it-all attitude so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air.
Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn’s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral. ( )

Brooklyn and Derek are in Dharma for the first Annual Book Festival. Her family all have important parts to play. Now there is a first ed of Little Women to restore. Things get interesting when someone attacks Brooklyn’s mother. What ties together the book, the evil neighbor, Lawson’s murder, the attack on her mother? ( )

3 1/2 stars ( )

Brooklyn and Derek have come to Dharma in the Sonoma valley wine country where there is going to be a Book Festival. Brooklyn will be demonstrating her techniques and teaching children how books are bound. The theme for the Festival is The book Little Women and Brooklyn has been asked by the local bookseller to repair a first edition of that book. Brooklyn 's mother is the chairman of the Festival committee and she has had her hands full trying to thwart an obnoxious guy who is trying to making a fast buck and ruin the integrity of the wines made in Dharma by association. When a committee member is murdered, embezzlement discovered, and threats start flying, Brooklyn and Derek gather their families and friends to protect their loved ones and find the killer.

It was great to see not just Brooklyn's family but Derek's as well when they went into protect mode. The mothers are an absolute hoot and the food description mouth-watering. I always enjoy the descriptions of Brooklyn at work. ( )