Seven mysteries where the crimes are motivated by books

Kate Carlisle is the New York Times bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries, including The Book Supremacy and Buried in Books, as well as the Fixer-Upper Mysteries, including A Wrench in the Works and Eaves of Destruction.

The new installment of the Bibliophile Mysteries is Little Black Book.

At CrimeReads Carlisle tagged seven "stories that will take you on fun and twisty journeys into the mysterious world of crimes motivated by books," including:

Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany

Englishwoman Gemma Doyle is a bit of a fish out of water in the quaint Cape Cod village of West London, where she has taken over her great-uncle’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop. Gemma and her best friend Jayne stumble across a dead body when trying to track down the owner of an 1887 magazine containing the first Sherlock Holmes story ever written. While the magazine may or may not be authentic—if it is, it’s practically priceless—the victim is authentically dead. And the police are eying Gemma for the crime. To clear her name, she’ll have to put her Holmesian eye for detail to work to find the bibliophile who craved the rare story enough to kill for it. Sprinkled with fun literary references to the Great Detective, Elementary, She Read is a lighthearted read that will satisfy lovers of classic mysteries.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue