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Cozy Mystery · Mira Ellsworth

The Lark & Quill Mysteries

A Boston editor inherits a Vermont bookshop and a talent for finding bodies. The sheriff would like her to stop. She will not.

6 books Heat 1–2 6 in the catalogue

What this series is

Setting
Heddleford, VT. Bookshop, inn, bakery, town green, winter.
How it works
Case-of-the-book + series-long slow-burn with Sheriff Hugh Kline + a quiet conspiracy about the aunt’s death.
Book 1 hook
A rare-book dealer dies between the stacks on Helen’s first week as owner.
Heat
 1–2 of 5 — what the numbers mean

Reading order

Each book is one complete couple with its own ending, so none of them leaves you hanging on the romance. What runs across the series is the case-of-the-book + series-long slow-burn with sheriff hugh kline + a quiet conspiracy about the aunt’s death — and that only makes sense in order.

  1. 01A Killer Between the Pages In production A Boston editor inherits a Vermont bookshop. In week one, a rare-book dealer dies between the stacks. The sheriff would like her to leave the tape alone. She does not.
  2. 02Dead On Arrival (mail) In production A poisoned package arrives at the Lark & Quill. It was not meant for Helen Brig—it was meant for anyone who inherited Aunt Eleanor’s routing.
  3. 03The Quilted Alibi In production A quilt-show death. An endpaper hidden in a square. Helen Brig is thirty-four and she can tell when fabric is lying. Sheriff Hugh Kline is thirty-eight and he asked her to pie, not wine.
  4. 04Sugar On the Evidence In production A body in Sam Hewitt’s walk-in. A quarto in a flour bag. Helen is thirty-four; Hugh is thirty-eight and he burns dinner so she will stay. The supplier needed a hiding place. Sam knew their inventory. The collector still has not come to town.
  5. 05Inn for Trouble In production A guest who knew Eleanor dies in a clawfoot room. Doreen Clay is forty-one and she runs an inn, not a metaphor. Helen is thirty-five. Hugh takes a room down the hall because that is procedure.
  6. 06Winter Binding In production Eleanor’s papers surface. The ice was a story. Selectman Walter Baines is fifty-eight and he has run out of weather.

Who you will be reading about

One couple per book. These are the leads, not the plot.

Book 01
Helen Brig (34) × Sheriff Hugh Kline (38)

What you get

01The book Perfect-bound paperback, matte laminate, or a case-laminate hardcover at 6 × 9 in. Yours to keep, lend and re-read.
02Every format, free The ebook lands in your inbox the moment you order, and the audiobook with it wherever one has been recorded. No second purchase.
03It ships Tracked post, one parcel per pen name, dispatched within 3 to 5 working days.