Tomes and Terriers
by Hillary Avis
Genre: Other
Published: 2020
Series: Magic Library Mystery
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Remembrance, Oregon, has a secret. Actually, it has everybody's secrets. In a house on Rosemary Street, the memories of all the town's citizens are recorded on the pages of magical books.Every happiness. Every lie. Every crime.Allison Rye's husband lost his memory overnight. They went to bed married and woke up strangers—twenty-five years of marriage gone, poof. He can't remember her name, let alone the home they've shared for decades.Forced to sell the family bakery to pay for his care, Allison is left broke, unemployed, with no hope of recovering her old life. What choice does she have but to move in with her daughter in Portland?But when a resident at her husband's care facility is murdered—and a sweet old lady is blamed—Allison finds herself drawn into the investigation. She knows something that police don't…something she can't reveal without becoming a murder suspect herself.With her intrepid foster dog, a Yorkshire terrier named Pogo, Allison sets out to prove that more than one person in Remembrance had it out for the victim. Too bad she only has a few days to dig up the evidence before she has to leave town.Hope comes in the form of a friend who offers Allison a place to live for free, with just one little catch. Allison must become the sworn guardian of library of memories.Reading the memory books is the perfect way for Allison to learn who committed murder at Golden Gardens Memory Care. But as she uncovers the true story of what happened that night, she learns other truths that make her question everything she knows about her own life.First in a series, Tomes & Terriers is a bittersweet magical realism mystery that will change the way you think about memory and magic, fidelity and friendship.Pages of Tomes and Terriers :