A Treacherous Tale

A Treacherous Tale is the second in a charming new cozy series from Elizabeth Penney,set in an English bookshop and following Molly Kimballwho has a habit of bookmarking trouble… ΓÇ£A cozy mystery that will delight your bookloverΓÇÖs heart and satisfy your hunger for intrigueΓÇöand crumpets!ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöPaige SheltonNew York Times bestselling author of the Scottish Bookshop series on Chapter and Curse LatelyMolly has been feeling that she might have fallen into a fairy tale: she’s reinvigorated the family bookshop Thomas MarloweΓÇöManuscripts and Foliosmade friends in her new home of CambridgeEnglandand is even developing a bit of a romance with the handsome KieranΓÇöa bike shop owner with a somewhat intimidating family pedigree. Having recently discovered The Strawberry Girlsa classic children’s taleMolly is thrilled to learn the authorIona Yorklives nearby. But while visiting the famous author at her lovely cottage in nearby Hazelhurstan old acquaintance of Iona’s tumbles off her roof to his death. Thenwhen one of IonaΓÇÖs daughtersΓÇöan inspiration for the original Strawberry GirlsΓÇögoes missingMolly begins to worry this story might be more Brothers Grimm than happily-ever-after. Especially after Molly learns about the mysterious long-ago death of IonaΓÇÖs husband and co-author of The Strawberry Girls…could past and present crimes be linked? Molly must put the clues together before someone turns this sweet tale sour.