Quinn Caine is back from teaching overseas and is happy to be home in Vienna, Virginia. In Vienna, she has a career as a bookbinder and hopes to build her business. Instead, the murder of a former rival makes her the number one suspect in the young woman's murder!

What a great first book in the series! Quinn is a kind, spunky and curious main character. Her curiosity sometimes, leads her into trouble. So much was going on in this book and I loved it - the mystery, Quinn adjusting to being home, reconnecting with her "crush", understanding why her best friend and cousin became a nun (who helps her solve the mystery) and the discussion about her bookbinding business and her parents bookstore Prose and Scones was interesting and added to the book.I

Quinn may occasionally act without thinking, but she learns from her mistakes and I liked that. Of course, her beautiful German Shepherd, RBG, was a fun and important mystery solving addition to the book.

I'm looking forward to the next book!

I received an ARC from NetGalley for a fair and honest review of this book.

This was an easy read. Author Harper Kincaid writes a sassy, spunky story, much like the main character. At first I thought it was a YA read. While clever, I found some of the trash talk and sass had a “mean girls” quality to it. I enjoy a good mystery, and this fit the bill. The characters were well-developed, and the plot held my attention.
Thank you to Netgalley and Crooked Lane publishers for an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I enjoyed this book. I especially liked the character Sister Daria. I liked the characters, I think they're well developed. The setting of the town was described really well. I didn't like that the culprit for the murders is a character that's not mentioned earlier in the book, he just appears. The method of the deaths was interesting, out of the normal. #ToKillaMockingGirl #NetGalley

Quinn Caine moved back home after being abroad teaching English. She is working at her parents bookstore repairing old books when the fiancé of an ex is murdered. After a brief stint with everyone believing Quinn killed her out of jealousy, Quinn decides to investigate the murder. With the help of her cousin. One problem though. Her older brothers friend, Aiden, is the police detective doing the real investigation. He wants her to quit her meddling and to stay safe. Cue in a Quinn’s old crush on him and the signals he’s sending that she’s trying not to read wrong and you have a cute possible romance in the works.
This is definitely the beginning of a great series. Ms. Kincaid did a spectacular job of slowly building the story. The friendship between Quinn and her cousin, a novitiate to be a nun, keeps the story going. Aiden is swoon worthy and leaves hints to his interest that Quinn purposely misunderstands for her own reasons. I, for one, cannot wait to read more in this series. Great read!

amateur-sleuth, family-dynamics, friendship, relationships, red-herrings, murder, murder-investigation, law-enforcement, Virginia

Small town girl learns the price of amateur sleuthing. The book restorer is back with family in her hometown after three years of teaching in Cambodia and finds her retired lawyer dad and horticulturist mom running a bookshop, her wildfire specialist brother taking a job as a local firefighter, her high school crush is the town's police detective, and her BFF rebel cousin is a novitiate in the local nunnery! She runs into a whole lot of former classmates including the girl everyone loved to hate. Guess which one turns up murdered and who found the body. Clue to the latter: she owns a K-9 reject named RBG. Sleuthing can be dangerous and many relationships are not quite what they seem in this absorbing mystery. I loved it!
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Crooked Lane Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

I think this book is a great start to a new series. I enjoyed the setting and I think the mystery is well written. The characters are enjoyable and engaging and I look forward to learning more about them. I also enjoyed the fact that this is a longer cozy than most.

I'm guessing this is the first in a new series of mysteries. It covers familiar territory in cosy mysteries: the main character, Quinn, is a youngish woman returning to her picturesque hometown to work in a family business, the family business is a bookstore (and she's a bookbinder for double cute bookish points), she has a pet with a cutesy name, and she has a former hometown boyfriend now engaged/married to a mean girl rival. When mean girl Tricia ends up dead and Quinn finds her body (of course), Quinn becomes a suspect and then sleuths out the real killer.
The story kept my attention enough to finish the book, but probably not enough to make me continue with this series. While I usually like a formulaic mystery just fine, this one fell flat for me. I didn't find the characters interesting enough or the setting memorable enough to want to revisit the world again--character and setting are usually what hook me on a series. Quinn needed more friends/family who were memorable, and her hot-headed novitiate nun friend (really?) wasn't cutting it for me. The town of Vienna was super generic. This was a disappointment.

Harper Kincaid has written a killer book with this one and I have a feeling this is going to be a favorite series of mine! I absolutely love reading cozy mysteries as they are lighthearted, fun, and filled with some of the best characters around! I look forward to many more books in this series!

Good page turning mystery. Enjoyed the spunky main character and the sassy secondary characters. And who doesn’t love all the doggies pawing around in this book. My only comment is that there needs to be a little better proofing/editing. In the beginning Quinn gives up her phone during the police interview but in the next pages she is at the crime scene taking pictures with her phone. I thought it was just me but then Aiden comes to find Quinn in the next pages and makes a big deal of returning her phone. This didn’t effect the story but interrupted the flow of the story.

This was a great start to a new series. Quinn has been away from home for several years, but now she has come back for good and is ready to settle back in to the town she loves. Unfortunately for her, the death of a high school rival happens right after a minor confrontation over an old boyfriend. Can Quinn and her cousin clear Quinn's name and find a killer? And will her old crush ever realize that she's all grown up now, and no longer the kid sister of his old friend? Full of well developed characters, action, and a lot of depth this a charming book that kept me turning pages all night. I look forward to the next installment!

I had this sitting on my Kindle for a couple of weeks and finally pulled it up to read. What a pleasant surprise. Harper Kincaid wrote a funny, cozy murder mystery that I was able to finish in a day. I thoroughly enjoyed this story with a good plot and strong characters. Hope this is the beginning of a new series!

I found this to be a fun read, and since it is the first in the series, I look forward to more. The author kept me guessing as to who the killer was and as to the motive. Although I am a little concerned about how many people had bad feelings toward the MC.

Thank to the the publisher and NetGalley for my eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Set in Vienna VA a traveler returns home where the past collides with the present mixing with bookbinding, murder and mystery. Agreeing with other readers, I hope this does become a series.

Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her hometown of Vienna, Virginia and her family.
Having travelled around the world, Quinn think that she can handle most things - but she is proven wrong when she finds her high-school rival Tricia dead. She had been murdered. Not only that but Tricia has just become engaged to Quinn's former boyfriend and was planning the wedding in Vienna.
As one of the main suspects in this small community, Quinn has to rally support from her friends, family and Anglican nuns in the hunt for the real killer,before handsome cop Aiden arrests her..
But someone is determined to keep their identity secret and Quinn and her dog find themselves in great danger before the killer is caught .
This enjoyable and community based mystery has a Christian theme which will appeal to many readers.

More more more! I completely and utterly want more of this series!!! I hope its a series, I don't mean to be presumptious but - it should be a series!!!

Quin returns home to Vienna Va after years abroad teaching and she can tell that nothing much has changed. Well, a few things have changed. Her best friend, cousin and former hell raiser has become a nun. Her brothers best friend and Quin's teenage crush has become even more handsome and a police detective to boot and her 'dated for like five minutes' ex is getting married to the resident mean girl. Smooth sailing right? But when said mean girl turns up dead in the park, Quin's left to wonder if her home town is anything like it used to be!

I'm sure there are people out there who consider cosy mysteries a sort of B grade fiction and not really worth their time but I challenge people who feel like that to read this book. The character development is well thought out, the story is paced nicely, the dialogue is snappy and you end up with geniune flutters for the romances scattered throughout! I love the way that an entire town can be brought to life so well and that you're left definitely wanting more of these people.

An absolute first rate novel and I'm keen to keep reading about Quin, Aiden, Bash and Daria. Oh and don't forget RBG!

Description
Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her hometown of Vienna, Virginia. Her parents have a charming bookshop, and that's where she's made her new life as a book binder, and she has the best trusty sidekick, German shepherd RBG--'Ruff Barker' Ginsburg. All is well in the world of QVC, that is, until she finds her old high school nemesis Tricia Pemberley dead on the road. As it turns out, her ex Scott Hauser had recently become engaged to Tricia, who had seemed particularly concerned about Quinn's re-emergence in Scott's life. Quinn and Scott have no hard feelings, and have hardly communicated since she's been back in town. Most folks in town believe in her innocence, but of course that doesn't influence the police, who peg her as their prime suspect. Or, at least until she's poisoned. But there is no way Quinn is going to stop now. Vienna is her town and-for better or worse-Tricia was one of their own. Someone may have killed the mocking girl, but no one's going to stop the notorious QVC.

MY REVIEW:
WOW, To Kill a Mocking Girl by Harper Kincaid is truly a cozy mystery that is worth reading. I love the beginning of the book where the author dedicates this book to the town of Vienna Virginia. So, when world traveler Quinn returns to her hometown of Vienna Virginia in the Springtime you know she is home.

But, of course not everything comes up roses as Quinn becomes the suspect in the murder of her nemesis. Oh did I tell you Tricia was engaged with Quinn's ex? The book is fun, interesting and one of those novels you want to read over and over again.

I received this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. Well, I definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to read a really good cozy novel. And definitely make sure you read the book to the very end, love books that include a little extra surprise, yummy.

To Kill a Mocking Girl by Harper Kincaid 4 stars

This the first book in "Bookbinding Mystery" by Harper Kincaid. I have never read Ms. Kincaid before and found this book to be enjoyable.
The story takes place in Vienna, Virginia and the main character is Quinn Victoria Caine. She has just come back from working overseas as an English teacher and finds that her old home town has changed. It has become a new bedroom community for the wealthy. Quinn works as a bookbinder in her parents bookstore and volunteers at the local dog rescue housed in the nearby nunnery. At the nunnery, we also meet Sister Daria, otherwise known as Quinn's cousin. While delivering dog food to the nunnery, local mean girl Tricia flaunts her engagement with Quinn ex-boyfriend Scott. In the middle of the night, Quinn's dog RBG is disturbed and they go out and stumbles on the body of Tricia. Enter, Detective Aiden Harrington, Quinn's brother best friend and Quinn's former crush. After questioning, Quinn is now on the list as a suspects. Aiden is firmly in change and throughout the story repeatedly tells Quinn to let the police handle the case. I enjoyed the conversations between Quinn and Aiden. Who killed Tricia and why is the mystery. Other suspects pop up and a deliberate poisoning of RBG is a harrowing incident. As a first book in a series, the book has to set the scene and give background on the characters. I liked the book a great deal and look forward to reading the next one in the series.

Thank you Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for this ARC>

Quinn Caine has returned to her hometown of Vienna, VA and is setting down her roots and getting involved in her community again. When her German Shepard, Ruff Barker Ginsburg (RBG), wakes her up one night with a sense of something outside, Quinn and RBG wind up finding the body of a woman Quinn grew up with dumped in a nearby park.

While Quinn was never close with the woman, she had grown up with her and she wants justice for the dead woman. With no love lost between the victim and many of the locals, there are a slew of suspects and red herrings to keep you off track until the final reveal.

I read A LOT of cozies and I generally can tell what I’ll like by the description, so yes, I have a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews for these books. But this book? I wish I could give it a ten! This is one of the longer cozies I have read and it was still too short! I cannot wait for more in this series! Seriously. cannot. wait!