Pressed Between The Pages: The Books From Birch Lane (Blackboard Belles Cozy Mysteries)

Tuesdays in Cartwell, Virginia, are usually slow—until a box of antique botanical books arrives at Forget Me Not Books. Sent without explanation by the town’s resident curmudgeon, Aldous Greer, the delivery is strange. When Aldous is found dead two days later with a cup of chamomile tea he famously despised sitting on his desk, the strange becomes sinister.

Bookstore owner Felice Mendes knows a clue when she sees one. Enlisting the help of the “Blackboard Belles”—her formidable, sharp-witted former teacher friends—Felice dives into the books’ cryptic handwritten notes scribbled in the margins. They soon uncover a trail of lethal botany leading back to a suspicious death thirty years ago.

Someone in their idyllic town has been tending a garden of deadly secrets, and they will kill to keep it perfectly pruned. Now, Felice must outsmart a desperate killer before she becomes the final footnote in a very deadly history.