A Dead Man's Chapter

A Dead Man's Chapter: A Cozy Coastal Bookshop Mystery

A famous author. A blackout. A signature that wasn't his.

Bookshop owner Nora Finch has a mortgage due, a cat with strong opinions, and a town that finally feels like home. Then Julian Thorne, the bestselling author of The Tidewater Widow, returns to Wren's Landing for a book signing in her shop, and is found dead behind the velvet curtain of the reading nook.

The strange part is that he seems to have signed books for forty minutes after he died. Everyone had a reason to hate him: a retired schoolmaster who says his late wife wrote the book, a restaurateur he once jilted, a young writer he crushed, and an assistant who knows too much.

With her friends, her brooding detective, and a very clever cat, Nora starts picking apart a forged signature and a twenty-eight-year-old theft. But a polite stranger with gentle hands has been watching her shop, and the real danger may be much closer than a murder.

For fans of cozy bookshop mysteries, small-town secrets, loyal pets, and slow-burn romance.

Clean cozy mystery.