When a long-lost manuscript surfaces in Violet Pennington's bookshop, it should have been a quiet scholarly discovery.
Instead, it disappears.
Six guests. One locked room. And not a single person who admits to taking it.
As a local bookseller, Violet is used to rare finds?but not thefts that make no sense. The manuscript had already been hidden once, long before it ever reached her shop. Which means the real crime didn't happen during the gathering.
It happened years ago.
With her sharp-eyed cat Agatha at her side?and the ever-watchful Detective Inspector James Morrison asking questions of his own?Violet begins to untangle a mystery buried deep in Brambleford's past.
Because the missing pages don't just tell a story.
They expose one.
And someone is still willing to keep it hidden.