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Deadline at the Bookshop Café
A Cozy Mystery with Writerly Secrets, Small-Town Gossip, and One Dead CriticBy Imad Muratspahic
Length1h 25m
About this audiobook
When a sharp-tongued book critic is found dead in a quiet small-town bookshop café, the story spreads faster than the morning gossip.
The café was supposed to be a place for coffee, books, and harmless literary secrets. But behind the shelves and polite smiles, old rivalries, hidden manuscripts, and wounded pride have been waiting for the right moment to surface. Everyone has a theory. Everyone has something to protect. And someone in town knows exactly how the critic’s final chapter ended.
Deadline at the Bookshop Café is a cozy mystery filled with writerly secrets, small-town gossip, and a suspicious death that turns a beloved café into the center of an investigation. As clues pile up and alibis begin to crack, the truth proves harder to shelve than anyone expected.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length1 hr 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter One: A Critic Walks Into a Café
3Chapter Two: Workshop for Liars
4Chapter Three: The Keynote Nobody Wanted
5Chapter Four: A Body Between Bestsellers
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6Chapter Five: Suspects With Scones
7Chapter Six: The Blue Pen
8Chapter Seven: Gossip Has a Memory
9Chapter Eight: The Critic’s Last Review
10Chapter Nine: Beatrice Bell’s Box
11Chapter Ten: The Librarian Confesses to Almost Everything
12Chapter Eleven: A Reading of Chapter Eleven
13Chapter Twelve: Lights Out in the Fiction Aisle
14Chapter Thirteen: The Committee Chair
15Chapter Fourteen: If I Am Dead, Begin Here
16Epilogue: A Better Kind of Deadline
17About the Author
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