Booked for Murder

In this atmospheric southern cozy debut,Madeline Brimley returns to the bookstore she inheriteddiscovering that small towns hold deadly secrets. Madeline Brimley left small town Georgia many years ago to go to college and pursue her dreams on the stage. Her dramatic escapades are many but success has eluded herleaving her at loose ends. But then she gets word that not only has her belovedeccentric Aunt Rose passedbut she’s left Madeline her equally eccentric bookstore housed in an old Victorian mansion in the small college town of Enigma. But when she arrives in her beat-up Fiat to claim The Old Juniper Bookstoreand restart her lifeMadeline is faced with unexpected challenges. The gazebo in the back yard is set ablaze and a late night caller threatens to burn the whole store down if she doesn’t leave immediately. But Madeline Brimleynot one to be intimidatedignores the threats and soldiers on. Until there’s another fire and a murder in the store itself. Now with a cloud of suspicion falling over herit’s up to Madeline to untangle the skein of secrets and find the killer before she herself is the next victim.