A Bookbinding Mystery Series

Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle, Harper Kincaid’s second installment in the Bookbinding mysteries is sure to charm.
All the world’s a stage, but it may be curtains for bookbinder Quinn Victoria Caine if she can’t bring the lights down on an actor’s killer .

Chad Hurt is Vienna, Virginia’s Local Boy Made Good. Back in the day, Chad was mostly known for breaking female hearts, but now he’s a big-time Broadway actor. Now, he’s back in Vienna, onstage on the Town Green, to announce the glitzy new theater he’s about to build in town. But after the announcement, as he gets in his car to leave, he’s killed by a sackful of snakes someone’s stashed in the back seat.

Chad’s only mourner is his blue Burmese kitten, Cindy Clawford. She wanders into the quaint Prose & Scones bookshop and strikes up a friendship with the resident German shepherd, Ruff Barker Ginsburg. So RBG’s dog-mom, bookbinder Quinn Victoria Caine, feels compelled to search for Chad’s killer.

Blood and revenge are hammering in someone’s head, but whose? Is the culprit one of the scores of women done wrong? Could it be Quinn’s fireman brother, Bash, who was Chad’s main competitor for town Lothario? When Bash becomes a target–black widow spiders tucked into his clothes–Quinn and RBG (with Cindy riding on his back) set aside their Hamlet-esque indecision and spring into action. But the only evidence is a scrap of paper bearing a vengeful Shakespeare quote. Can Quinn track down the one who seeks a pound of flesh, or will she face the sleep of death?

The first cozy mystery in a series full of Southern charm—starring bookish sleuth Quinn Caine and her quirky sidekicks: a lock-picking nun and her dog, Ruff Barker Ginsburg.

In small-town Virginia, bookbinder Quinn finds herself in a major bind when she’s blamed for the murder of her ex’s fiancée . . .

Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned, charm-for-days bookshop, Prose & Scones. With her trusty German Shephard, RBG—‘Ruff Barker’ Ginsburg—by her side, what can go wrong? Okay, sure, bumping into her ex, Scott, or her former high school nemesis, Tricia, is a drag. It certainly doesn’t help that they have acquired the new hobby of shoving their recent engagement in her face every chance they get. But that doesn’t mean Quinn wanted to find Tricia dead in the road. So why does half the town think she may have done it?

Quinn is determined to find Tricia’s killer, even if it means partnering with her cousin-turned-nun, Sister Daria, and Detective Aiden Harrington, her older brother’s ‘too-movie-star-handsome-for-his-own good’ best friend. They believe she’s innocent, but of course that doesn’t influence the police, who peg her as their prime suspect. Or, at least until she’s poisoned.

But there is no way Quinn is going to stop now. Vienna is her town and—for better or worse—Tricia was one of their own. Someone may have killed the mocking girl, but no one’s going to stop the notorious QVC.