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Some bookshops just sell books. Finch & Fable reads them.
When Elowen Finch inherits her great-aunt’s bookshop in the Cornish harbour town of Blackwater Quay, she gets the shop cat, a lifetime supply of ink-stained cardigans, and a gift she’s never quite let herself claim: the ability to read the emotional residue left behind in old documents. It’s a useful talent for restoring rare and antique books. It turns out to be considerably more useful for solving a murder.
Days after local historian Percival Alder buys a rare annotated property ledger from the shop, he’s found dead at the foot of the harbour wall. The police call it an accident. The books in Elowen’s hands say otherwise — and in a town where everyone knows everyone and the secrets run centuries deep, the truth has been waiting in the margins all along.
A warm, witty, atmospheric cosy mystery for fans of Janice Hallett, T. Kingfisher, and Jacqueline Winspear. First in the Blackwater Quay Mysteries.
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