A Bookshop Full of Secrets
A Page-Turning Whodunit of a Festival Gone Wrong, Hidden Motives, and the Neighbor No One SuspectedBy Penelope Marsh
Length8h 4m
About this audiobook
Someone died in the reading room.
The door was locked from the inside.
And the only person found inside was Lark's sister.
Lark Penwythe came back to Inkwell-on-Wye for one reason: bury her father and clear out his crumbling bookshop. She came for closure, not a corpse. But on the eve of the town's annual Literary Lantern Festival, the local historian is found poisoned inside the shop's private reading room — a room locked from the inside, no forced entry, no explanation.
The detective has already made up his mind.
Sitting in that room, clutching a rare folklore collection, was Briony. Lark's fragile younger sister. No alibi. A history of sleepwalking. A troubling gap in her memory from that very night.
The case looks clean. Lark knows it isn't.
Because the historian hadn't just been studying Inkwell's past — he'd been threatening to expose a decades-old crime that would shatter the town's most respected families. And now everyone who had reason to want him silenced is wearing their most sympathetic face.
To save Briony, Lark has to peel back forty years of buried truth. Bitter academic rivalries. A vanished manuscript. A love affair that ended in flames. A circle of neighbors who've spent a lifetime perfecting the art of the friendly lie.
But the killer isn't done. A second death tightens the noose. And the only clues Lark has are faded marginalia in old books, half-remembered recipes, and the hushed confessions of a village that trusts no one.
She has until the festival ends. After that, her sister stops being a suspect and becomes a conviction.
A Bookshop Full of Secrets is a charming and atmospheric cozy mystery about locked-room murder, small-town secrets, family loyalty, and the sins that surface when the past refuses to stay buried.
Perfect for readers who love amateur sleuth mysteries, village whodunits, bookshop settings, golden-era puzzle plots, and cozy crime in the tradition of Anthea Fraser and Rachel Ekstrom Courage.
A twisty, cozy whodunit you'll devour in one sitting.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Promise We Couldn’t Keep
3Chapter 2 - A Sip Too Bitter
4Chapter 3 - A Diary’s Silent Pages
5Chapter 4 - The Doctor’s Sour Smile
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6Chapter 5 - The Footprint the Rain Forgot
7Chapter 6 - The Shed That Still Burns
8Chapter 7 - The Book Thief’s Confession
9Chapter 8 - The Thread That Led Nowhere
10Chapter 9 - The Boy in the Raincoat
11Chapter 10 - A Mistake Too Many
12Chapter 11 - The Widow’s Dance
13Chapter 12 - The Taste of Truth
14Chapter 13 - The Honest Thief
15Chapter 14 - The Prescription’s Secret
16Chapter 15 - The Gossip’s Tongue
17Chapter 16 - The Raincoat Returned
18Chapter 17 - The Diary Reveals
19Chapter 18 - The Tear in the Page
20Chapter 19 - The Weight of a Paperweight
21Chapter 20 - The Love Letter’s Final Word
22Chapter 21 - The Community Divided
23Chapter 22 - The Boots That Fit
24Chapter 23 - A Sister’s Secret
25Chapter 24 - The Recipe for a New Beginning
26Chapter 25 - The Final Alibi
27Chapter 26 - The Detective’s Guard Down
28Chapter 27 - The Bookworm Ball
29Chapter 28 - The Next Page
30Epilogue
31About the Author
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