Violet Waverly first appeared in Crime and Poetry and one of the best ways to learn about a person is by asking questions, so let’s get to know Violet.

What is your name?
Violet Waverly

How old are you?
30

What is your profession?
Bookseller and Adjunct English Professor

Do you have a significant other?
Kinda. . .

What is his/her name and profession?
Well. . . I have to pick between two. It’s either Mayor Nathan Morton or Chief David Rainwater.

Any children?
nope

Do you have any sibling(s)?
none

Do your parents live near you?
My mom passed away when I was 13, and my dad is complicated. It’s hard to know where he is.

Who is your best friend?
Sadie Cunningham

Cats, dogs or other pets?
One cat a tuxedo named Emerson. And one crow name Faulkner.

What town do you live in?
Cascade Springs, New York just outside of Niagara Falls

House or building complex? Own or Rent?
House that had been converted into my family’s bookstore Charming Books. My grandmother, Grandma Daisy, technically owns it.

What is your favorite spot in your house?
The main reading room of the bookstore where the birch tree grows.

Favorite meal? Favorite dessert?
Anything with sugar, especially anything from Le Crepe Joile down the street.

Favorite hobby?
Solving murders

Favorite author?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Favorite vacation spot?
Anything. I’ll go anywhere!

Favorite sports team?
Chicago White Sox

Movies or Broadway?
Movies

Are you a morning or a night person?
Night

Amateur sleuth or professional?
Amateur sleuth. . . much to Rainwater’s chagrin

Whom do you work with when sleuthing?
Oddly, I mostly work with my cat Emerson and the books in Charming Books. . . they have a secret. . .

In a few sentences, what is a typical day in your life like?
Typically, I jump out of bed because I’m late to waking up and have to run to teach one of my classes at the local community college or open the bookshop for the day. Undoubtedly, someone will come to me with a problem that I will feel obligated to fix, and so I will go on a wild goose chase that most likely will lead me to a murderer or a resolution to the problem.

You can read about Violet in Murders and Metaphors, the third book in the “Magical Bookshop” cozy mystery series, released February 12, 2019.

Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara.

January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs Violet that she’s already arranged for the mystical Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins’s book signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard—with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.

Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs, but she left town years ago after a huge falling-out with her three sisters. One of those sisters, Violet’s high school friend Lacey Dupont, attends the book signing in the hope of making amends with her sister, but Belinda and Lacey end up disrupting the signing with a very public shouting match and Lacey quickly becomes the prime suspect in the sommelier’s murder.

Violet is sure Lacey is innocent, and to keep her friend out of prison, Violet asks for guidance from her magical bookshop. The shop’s ethereal essence points her to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, but what have the four March sisters to do with the four Perkins sisters? If she can’t figure it out, Violet, herself, may turn as cold as ice. Violet, Grandma Daisy, Emerson the tuxedo cat, and resident crow Faulkner are back on the case in Murders and Metaphors, USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower’s enchanting third Magical Bookshop mystery.

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About the author
Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her calling of making people laugh with her words. In addition to being an author, Amanda is former librarian living in Northeast Ohio.

Reach out to Amanda at amandaflower.com or on Twitter.

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