Murder In The Fine Print

A rare-book dealer dead in the reading chair. A shop bell that rings when it shouldn’t. And a cat sitting on the evidence.

Retired English teacher Felice Mendes can spot a weak alibi before it finishes forming. So when Howard Pell turns up dead in her bookshop and the deputy arrests the wrong woman, Felice uncaps her dry-erase markers.

Her Wednesday mystery circle reports in: a retired colonel with a notebook, a librarian with scrapbooks, a legal whiz with a baby in a sling, and a café owner who hears everything.

Every clue points to Vivienne Harcourt, whose program Howard seized and whose handwriting sits beside his body. And Dennis Farro had a secret Howard kept in his pocket.

Buried in the fine print is a clause that hands the Archive Room Felice built, and everything in it, to Howard’s estate on Halloween. Howard knew one box held something priceless. If Felice doesn’t find the truth first, she loses it all, and a killer who knows her shop inside out walks free.