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Jen’s busy Christmas season at Ravenous Readers is disrupted by a body outside the bookstore. A scrap bearing her address makes the murder personal, forcing the crime novelist to investigate while struggling to finish her own fictional mystery.

Crime writer Jen Dawson returns to her hometown hoping to overcome writer’s block. When the local bookseller dies mysteriously and leaves her the shop, evidence linking Jen to the death forces her to investigate and clear her name.

Bookstore owner and novelist Jen investigates the suspected poisoning of Riddleton’s police chief. With evidence threatening to incriminate her friend Eric, she must identify the real killer while trying to keep her business and writing career on track.

After the owner of a rival bookstore is murdered, suspicion drives customers away from Jen’s shop. To protect both her freedom and Ravenous Readers, she must investigate the killing before the accusations permanently destroy her livelihood.

Jen hopes to concentrate on writing until she encounters a bloodstained stranger with no memory. The subsequent murder of a developer threatening her bookstore draws her into another investigation, especially when a police officer appears to be wrongly accused.

A prisoner claiming a wrongful murder conviction asks Jen to revisit his case. Because he urgently needs a kidney transplant unavailable to him in prison, uncovering the truth becomes a race to save his life as well as prove his innocence.

A stranger’s death after a Christmas party puts Jen’s friend Angus under suspicion. Convinced he is innocent, she follows a trail of old grief and concealed history while a killer increasingly determined to silence her threatens the festive season.

Jen plans to retire from amateur detection and finish her novel, but a high school principal’s murder changes that. When the town’s trusted veterinarian becomes the leading suspect, she investigates to discover who is responsible and prevent another death.