Location: United States
Member Since:
Aug. 02, 2020
Lily Charles
Biography
Charlene Ball is the author of the award-winning DARK LADY: A NOVEL OF EMILIA BASSANO LANYER (She Writes Press, 2017). She has a lifelong love of the Renaissance and its literature and history. She has taught English and Women’s Studies. In 2009 she retired from the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. Since retirement, she has been busier than ever with writing, volunteer work, and bookselling. She is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Association and a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She is married to author and bookseller Libby Ware. They collaborate on writing bibliomysteries under the name of Lily Charles. MURDER AT THE ESTATE SALE is their first collaboration and the first in the Molly and Emma Booksellers series.
Libby Ware is the author of the award-winning LUM: A NOVEL, published in 2015. She is the owner of Toad-lily Books, an antiquarian book business. She is president of the Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Booksellers, Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Association. She is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Libby lives in Atlanta with her dog Robin about a mile from her wife Charlene Ball. They collaborate on writing bibliomysteries under the name of Lily Charles. MURDER AT THE ESTATE SALE is their first bibliomystery and the first in the Molly and Emma Booksellers series.
Libby Ware is the author of the award-winning LUM: A NOVEL, published in 2015. She is the owner of Toad-lily Books, an antiquarian book business. She is president of the Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Booksellers, Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Association. She is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Libby lives in Atlanta with her dog Robin about a mile from her wife Charlene Ball. They collaborate on writing bibliomysteries under the name of Lily Charles. MURDER AT THE ESTATE SALE is their first bibliomystery and the first in the Molly and Emma Booksellers series.
Where to buy in print
Books
Murder at the Book Fair
by Lily Charles
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 53,000.
Language:
English.
Published: October 21, 2023
by
Black Opal Books.
Categories:
Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
When booksellers Molly and Emma set up at the Antiquarian Book Fair in St. Petersburg, Florida, the last thing they expect to find is a dead body. Jasper Ross shows interest in Emma’s most valuable books and then is found dead. They join forces with Stewart, a transgender print dealer to solve the murder. Molly and Emma find their relationship developing. But will they live to enjoy it?
Murder at the Estate Sale
by Lily Charles
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 60,350.
Language:
English.
Published: August 15, 2020
by
Black Opal Books.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Based in Atlanta, Georgia the world of antiquarian and collectible bookselling is exposed as a hotbed of collectors and booksellers who will do almost anything to score that perfect collectible book. Emma and Molly find themselves in the middle of both a murder, and an occult cult, as they pursue their work and each other in a delightfully twisted, intriguing puzzle.