The bookshop I wish I’d found years ago
A crime lover’s paradise in the city that never sleeps
I’m just back from a pre-Christmas trip to New York with the family and had to share one of my bookshop discoveries — a store that is no doubt familiar to mystery and crime loving New Yorkers, but was new to me!
The Mysterious Bookshop might have just leapfrogged to one of my favourite places on earth. Rows and rows and rows of crime novels. I was in heaven.
The only problem? I only had limited space in my luggage home!
No problem — The Mysterious Bookshop produces a number of pocket-sized series and I picked up these two little beauties… both with links to home.
The late, great Christopher Fowler was one of the loveliest men I knew, and I’m over the moon to have something new to read from him — especially a story that ties into Dracula. And I’ve been meaning to read the Peter Diamond mysteries for a long time, set as they are just down the road in Bath, so this little gem is going to be my way in.
And there was one more unexpected treat, as each customer receives an exclusive Christmas short story, a tradition that stretches back 30 years, the only proviso for the invited authors being that the mystery has to feature an appearance of the Mysterious Bookshop itself.
I’m going to save this one for Christmas Eve!
If you’re ever in New York, it would be a crime if you didn‘t visit to 58 Warren Street. I know I’ll be back. I wish Bristol had a mystery-themed bookstore like this, but if it did, it wouldn’t be down the road from one of my other favourite places on Earth…
