Murder Between the Shelves

He came to buy her bookshop. He left in an ambulance.

Molly Hart, 37, former school librarian, inherited The Book Nook at 214 Main Street, Willow Bend, from her Aunt Rose — creaky floors, a tea station where regulars help themselves, and Bookmark, a very large orange tabby who supervises from the mystery shelf. When slick developer Garrett Vane arrives to buy the whole Main Street block for condos, he collapses in the reading nook at the shop's packed Founders' Day open house. It looks like a heart attack. But Molly remembers the phone call from his assistant that morning — "no nuts, ever, he carries an EpiPen" — and she knows what she smelled on his finished mug.

Inside:

• A cozy mystery in Willow Bend

• Bookseller Molly Hart and The Book Nook

• Bookmark, the orange tabby on the mystery shelf

• A developer, a Founders' Day crowd and a suspicious collapse

• The Book Nook Mysteries, Book 1, as a PDF

Plain black tea should never smell sweet. Like almonds.