Murder in the Margins Vol. 1

Nobody writes in the margins of a book they mean to forget.

Want the whole mystery? Get all six Murder in the Margins paperbacks in the Complete Set.

Juliet Marston has been a bookseller long enough to know you never just inherit a shop — you inherit whatever the shop was keeping. In one of her late great-aunt's unshelved boxes she finds a worn copy of Persuasion, and in its margin, a penciled message about the one name Brambleford stopped saying forty years ago: Eliza Cooke, the author who vanished before her last book was finished. Her aunt never mentioned Eliza. Not once.

This first volume opens the Austen shelf: 100 cozy murder-mystery word-search cases of assembly rooms, misdirected letters, and suspects who are nowhere near as agreeable as they seem. Four scenes to a case — find the evidence, find the suspects, and mind what turns up twice — with puzzles that grow from Apprentice to Master Sleuth as you go. And at the back, a sealed finale that holds the first piece of a much older mystery.

Warm shop, clever puzzles, and a trail of pencil marks you'll follow all the way to the last book.

For readers who love the cozy wit of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club — but wish they could solve along. From the imprint behind Murder, She Searched.

Pour the tea. Sharpen the pencil. Mind the margins.