Death The Blackthorn Books Mysteries: Death at the Old Vicarage

A dead dealer. A missing notebook trail. An old vicarage full of books that remember too much.When Clara Whitmore is called to Wenshall to examine a notebook of copied inscriptions, she expects a quiet question about missing books. Instead, she finds a body in the schoolroom and a family history someone has spent decades keeping tidy.The notebook belonged to Celia Fairbrooke, who spent her final weeks recording names from books no longer in the house. At first, the entries look harmless. Then Clara sees the pattern. Lending cards, covered bookplates, torn photographs, charity sale records, and one erased name all point to Ruth Denby, a woman the village learned not to remember.Detective Inspector Oliver Dane has a murder to solve. Clara has a paper trail to follow.At the Old Vicarage, every shelf has been edited, every family story polished, and every missing book may be a witness. Someone turned theft into inheritance once. Now they are willing to kill to keep it that way.Death at the Old Vicarage is an elegant English village cozy mystery full of rare books, old secrets, quiet wit, and murder among the shelves.