Fern, the profanity-heavy Rattikin and bookseller first appearing in Bookshops and Bonedust, has run her quiet little shop in her quiet seaside village for years. Now, offered a change of scenery and a potential end to the ennui she’s fallen into in recent years, she transplants herself to the city of Thune to start anew beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? (She hates the taste of coffee.) Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her! (Not in […]
“Fern wondered if all dramatic showdowns had such an awkward aftermath. It was more painful than a book group pretending they’d read the story.”
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Bradlee