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A Cozy Murder Mystery

A murdered father. A vintage bookshop hiding deadly secrets. Will Eliza risk everything to uncover the truth behind her dad's brutal killing?

Eliza Hamilton, professor of literature, drops in on her father at his beloved bookshop early one morning . . . the very morning that he has fallen victim to thugs with a fatal blow to the head, in a random break-in. Or was it random?

The bookshop, nestled in a row of colonial buildings in historic Old Town Alexandria, has stood immutable to Alexandria's changing fortunes since Eliza's forefathers built it before the Civil War. Patrons come from all walks of life, old and young and every age in between, local residents Black and White, who have been visiting the shop since they were tykes and the many tourists that crowd the streets of the colonial town. Is one of them the murderer?

As ghosts start reaching out after her father died, Eliza Hamilton isn't sure which was more unsettling: the spirits whispering through the shelves of her family's historic bookshop, or the very real killer still walking its streets. Some secrets stay buried for a reason. This one can't stay buried much longer.

Eliza is determined to find her father's killers even as she grapples with the fate of the shop that has been in her family for so many years . . .