We are delighted to host Author Libby Klein's book launch of her latest mystery, and the first installment of her NEW SERIES, Vice and Virtue - A Layla Virtue Mystery #1.  Oh, and did we mention that it is FREE to attend?

 

For this event, we do ask for everyone attending to be respectful to all of the other attendees and to our staff members, if someone chooses to wear a mask.

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Event Location:

Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop

6 Clouser Road, Mechanicsburg PA 17055

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If you are not able to make this event in person,

you can still purchase your copy of Vice and Virtue

through us and we can have Libby personalize it for 

you on the afternoon of the 29th.

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Shipping is also an available option and is offered

through our online store and for our over-the-phone

orders.

 

Vice and Virtue Synopsis:

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Layla Virtue, a blue-haired, 30-something recovering alcoholic and former cop is trying to reinvent herself as a musician—between AA meetings, dodging eccentric neighbors at her trailer park, and reconnecting with her mysterious dad—in this ​unforgettable new mystery brimming with hilarity and heart for readers of Margot Douaihy, Jane Pek, and Darynda Jones.

Layla is taking her new life one day at a time from the Lake Pinecrest Trailer Park she now calls home. Being alone is how she likes it. Simple. Uncomplicated. Though try telling that to the group of local ladies who are in relentless pursuit of Layla as their new BFF, determined to make her join them for coffee and donuts.

Meanwhile, since her first career ended in a literal explosion, Layla’s trying to eke out a living as a rock musician. It’s not easy competing against garage bands who work for tacos and create their music on a computer, while all she has is an electric guitar and leather-ish pants. But Layla isn’t in a position to turn down any gig. Which is why she’s at an 8-year-old’s birthday party, watching as Chuckles the Clown takes a bow under the balloon animals. No one expects it will be his last . . .

Who would want to kill a clown—and why? Layla and her unshakable posse are suddenly embroiled in the seedy underbelly of the upper-class world of second wives and trust fund kids, determined to uncover what magnetic hold a pudgy, balding clown had over women who seem to have everything they could ever want. Then again, Layla knows full well that people are rarely quite what they seem—herself included . . .