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Fun to read mystery set in a bookstore with a coloring group as sleuths

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Iiiireader

The Coloring Crook (Pen & Ink)

By: Krista Davis

Rating: 5 of 5

I got this book as I enjoy both coloring books and mysteries. I expected the mystery to have a lot of coloring references which didn’t really happen. There were references to drawing and to the group which meets to color but coloring was not the focus of the mystery.

The main sleuth of the story, the manager of Color Me Read, is Florrie Fox who is also a coloring book illustrator and artist. She works through mysteries which her drawing abilities as well as weighing the evidence.

In this book, a friend of the group meets an untimely death after finding a rare item. The story takes off with lots of twists and turns.

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