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I picked up The Stolen Letter on NetGalley. I’m looking forward to visiting the Bookshop again.
The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton Series: Scottish Bookshop Mystery #5
Published by St. Martin's Press on April 7, 2020
Source: NetGalley
Genres: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 304
Format: eARC
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Delaney Nichols is confident she’s doing what she loves—case in point, just one day after returning from her fabulous European honeymoon, she’s eager to get back to the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. But as she disembarks her bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying to the ground.
Delaney’s hapless victim’s name is Mary, and the two women can’t help but notice that they bear an uncanny resemblance to one another. According to Mary, they both also look like the long-beheaded Mary Queen of Scots. Even stranger, Mary believes she is the reincarnation of the Scottish queen. But peculiar as Delaney’s doppelganger is, she doesn’t have time to dwell on it: on her arrival to the bookshop, she learns the Edinburgh city council wants to close the Cracked Spine, citing code violations, and she’s determined to stop them.
But when Mary’s husband dies in a car explosion—and Delaney learns he was the very member of city council who proposed that the city take a closer look at the bookshop’s construction—she starts to wonder if her meeting with Mary wasn’t an accident. Edinburgh has become as filled with intrigue and deception as any European court, and Delaney is determined to get to the bottom of this royal mystery.
I read one of her books years ago and really enjoyed it.
I think I might pick up her Thin Ice, the first in a series set in Alaska.
Author and book both new to me. Thanks for the review
I’ve read the whole series so far and enjoyed them.
I enjoyed an early book in this series. This looks like another good one. Happy Reading!
I think it should be. I’ve liked them all so far.
Enjoy your new book. Have a great week!
Thanks! You too.
Loving the cover of what sounds like an interesting read.
The cover is good. The bookshop is a really great setting.
The Scottish Bookshop Mysteries sound great and just my type of read. I will have to find #1
I’ve really enjoyed them.