Betrayal by the Book

The Swallowtail Legacy Series - Book 2

Betrayal by the Book

By Michael D. Beil
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“Each character…sparks with life. Lark’s process and the reveals are perfectly paced…Readers will be hooked.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Wreck at Ada’s Reef

A writer’s conference brings twelve-year-old Lark’s favorite writer—and a suspicious death—to Swallowtail Island, in the second book in this middle grade mystery series by an Edgar Award-nominated author.

Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer’s Conference. Lark’s ecstatic to be chosen as a “page” for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart.

But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn’t sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially not after it’s revealed the assistant recently completed a hot new novel and the file’s vanished from her computer.

Then Lark finds out the assistant had a bird—the match to the one she found hidden in her mom’s book—and she needs answers. It looks like Swallowtail Island still has secrets to reveal, and Lark’s going to uncover them.

In a gripping new chapter in the Swallowtail Legacy series, Mike D. Beil spins another clever clue hunt that seamlessly slips in alongside the best classics of middle grade mystery.

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  1. Odin
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    Well written whodunit that adults and teens will enjoy

    For anyone on the lookout for a well penned character-driven story, this will more than satisfy. From the stepdad to the siblings, all overcome the loss of blood parents through the heavy winds of preteen growing up. Birds once again play an important part in this story of Swallowtail Island. Here, Lark a main character, lands the job of working the writer’s conference and meet what has become her favorite author. Disappointment overcomes Lark as the author turns out to be an angry and disturbed person. When the murder of the author’s assistant occurs, Lark feels the murderer got the wrong person and the story now takes some precarious turns and dips to solve. A fun listen as read by Taylor Meskimen.

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