In Lauren Elliott's fifth Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, a murder
and a missing first edition of The Secret Garden have rare bookstore
owner Addie Greyborne running around her Massachusetts town trying to
read the clues...
January isn't the season for the seaside, but the big Fire and Ice
festival is keeping bookstore owner Addie busy. Amid the plans for a
fireworks display and an ice-carving competition, she's also dog sitting
for a friend in the hospital. When Addie goes to her friend's house to
gather supplies, she notices an interesting item on the nightstand which
belongs to her shop assistant, Paige: a very valuable copy of the
beloved children's book The Secret Garden.
But Addie's blood runs cold when she finds something else: a dead body
behind the bakery next door to her shop. Martha, the bakery owner, has
no alibi--and has been seen in a heated argument with the victim. And
the next thing Addie knows, that first edition has gone missing. Is
there a connection between the body and the treasured tome? If there is,
it's up to Addie to find a killer with a motive as hidden as Frances
Hodgson Burnett's famous garden . . .
"Seaside charm only gets better in winter! A Page Marked for
Murder has all the things I love in a book."
--Vicki Delany