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The Bookshop Murder
A Cozy Mystery Novel by Merryn Allingham
Book 1 of the Flora Steele Mysteries Series
Subgenres:
- Historical Mystery,
- Amateur Sleuth,
- English Village
This book is for you if you're into...
- Historical cozy mysteries set in 1950s british villages
- Amateur sleuths solving linked murders with local suspects
- Bookshop settings with crime writer sidekick dynamics
From Little Stack
I love a historical setting alongside my mysteries, and this British novel has an absolutely
engrossing one.
In 1955 Sussex, Flora’s life is upended when she opens her bookstore to discover the corpse of a young man. Unsettled and intrigued by the mystery, Flora seeks help from Jack, a bookshop customer and crime writer. Together they piece together clues that bring them to a hotel full of shady suspects.
If you’re charmed by these sleuths, you’ll be quickly adding the rest of this mystery series to your TBR.
Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case!
Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she's in for the surprise of her life! Because there, amongst her bookcases, is the body of a young man, with a shock of white-blond hair. But who was he? And how did he come to be there?
Determined to save her beloved bookshop's reputation and solve the baffling mystery, Flora enlists the help of handsome and brooding Jack Carrington: crime writer, recluse and her most reliable customer.
The unlikely duo set about investigating the extraordinary case, following a lead across the sleepy village of Abbeymead to The Priory Hotel. When the hotel's gardener dies suddenly, and they find out their victim was staying there, Flora's suspicions are raised.
Are the two deaths connected? Is someone at the hotel responsible – the nervous cook, the money-obsessed receptionist, or the formidable manageress?
As the trail of clues takes Flora and Jack all over the village it becomes clear there's more than one person hiding secrets in Abbeymead… But does Flora have what it takes to uncover the truth – or will her amateur sleuthing put her in harm's way?
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