Book #1

Librarian Molly Kimball and her mother, Nina, need a change. So when a letter arrives from Nina's Aunt Violet in Cambridge requesting their help running the family bookshop, they jump at the chance. Thomas Marlowe-Manuscripts and Folios, is one of the oldest bookshops in Cambridge, and customers can tell. When Molly and Nina arrive, spring has come to Cambridge and the Cambridge Literary Festival is underway. Determined to bring much-needed revenue to the bookstore, Molly invites Aunt Violet's college classmate poet Persephone Brightwell to hold a poetry reading in the shop. But the event ends in disaster when a guest is found dead-with Molly's great-aunt's knitting needle used as the murder weapon. While trying to clear Violet and keep the shop afloat, Molly sifts through secrets untangling a web of blackmail, deceit, and murder.