Crimes and covers
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Christmas is coming to Cascade Springs, and so is the long-awaited wedding of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly and police chief David Rainwater. But the reception becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons when a woman's dead body floats by on the Niagara River. Violet is shocked to recognize the deceased as a woman who visited Charming Books two days before, toting a rare first edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Now she's dead, and a message scrawled on her palm reads, "They stole my book." With Emerson the tuxedo cat and Faulkner the crow, Violet sets out to recover the book by solving a murder most transcendental.