Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public
Library--she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about
mysterious old volumes. But she didn't expect her sleuthing skills to
come in so handy in a little seaside town ...
Addie left some painful memories behind in the big city, including the
unsolved murder of her fiancé and her father's fatal car accident. After
an unexpected inheritance from a great aunt, she's moved to a small New
England town founded by her ancestors back in colonial times--and living
in spacious Greyborne Manor, on a hilltop overlooking the harbor. Best
of all, her aunt also left her countless first editions and other
treasures--providing an inventory to start her own store.
But there's trouble from day one, and not just from the grumpy woman who
runs the bakery next door. A car nearly runs Addie down. Someone steals
a copy of Alice in Wonderland. Then, Addie's friend Serena, who owns a
nearby tea shop, is arrested--for killing another local merchant. The
police seem pretty sure they've got the story in hand, but Addie's not
going to let them close the book on this case without a fight ...