The Marginalia Murder, (Paperback)

<p>In the fog-wrapped town of Dunmore Cove, Oregon, the most dangerous thing Willa Fenn expects to find between the shelves of her inherited bookshop is a misplaced semicolon. But when she unearths an unsigned, handwritten manuscript tucked behind a water-stained copy of Rebecca, its opening dedication stops her cold: For H.B., who stepped where she was told not to, and who will not step again.</p><p>Three weeks earlier, beloved schoolteacher Harriet Blume was found dead at the base of the Dunmore Cove lighthouse - officially ruled an accident. Nobody pushed her. Nobody had to.</p><p>Except the manuscript, written in an ink that hasn't quite dried, seems to know exactly what happened, and exactly what will happen next.</p><p>Willa is not a detective. She is a woman who has read ten thousand books and suspects this makes her dangerously qualified. Armed with an encyclopedic memory for fictional crime, a deeply loyal circle of eccentric regulars, and a refusal to believe that coincidence has such elegant prose style, she begins pulling on the threads - and finds that Dunmore Cove's most charming citizens are riddled with secrets that have been building, like sediment, for twenty years.</p><p>The manuscript keeps updating. The killer knows Willa is reading.</p><p>The Marginalia Murders is a slow-burning, fog-soaked debut cozy mystery for readers who take their tea strong, their sentences longer, and their small-town secrets very, very seriously.</p>

• The Marginalia Murder, (Paperback)
• Author: Purple Duck Press
• ISBN: 9798233067907
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-27
• Page Count: 126