Everyone came to hear Helena Marsh read murder.
No one expected to witness one.When the bestselling mystery author arrives in Mapleoak for a bookshop reading event, the Murder Mystery Book Club is beside themselves with excitement.
Twenty-four hours later, Helena is found dead — crushed beneath a fallen bookcase in her seaside rental cottage.With the town’s real detective inconveniently out of state, the club finally has its moment.Helena had enemies and plenty of them.A scorned ex-lover hiding secrets.A furious rival author with a reputation to reclaim.A pompous bookshop owner with everything to lose.Even an obsessive superfan with jam jars and nervous sweat.From gossip fueled stakeouts to questionably legal “evidence retrieval,” the club barrels through suspects with more enthusiasm than expertise and somehow, against all odds, the clues begin to point in one chilling direction.Because Helena didn’t just write about scandals.She collected them.And someone was desperate to stay unwritten.What started as a dream literary event is about to end in another headline…unless the book club can solve the case before they become the next tragic twist.
