Welcome to Litsy!

The second in a charming new cozy series from Elizabeth Penney, set in an English bookshop.Lately, Molly Kimball has been feeling that she might have fallen into one of her favorite fairy tales: she's reinvigorated the family bookshop Thomas Marlowe--Manuscripts and Folios, made friends in her new home of Cambridge, England, and might even be developing a bit of a romance with the handsome Kieran--a bikeshop owner with a somewhat intimidating family pedigree. Having recently fallen in love with The Strawberry Girls, a classic children's tale, Molly is thrilled to learn the author, Iona York, lives nearby. Determined to convince Iona to participate in a reading at Thomas Marlowe to celebrate the release of a new edition of The Strawberry Girls, Molly and her Aunt Violet set off for Hazelhurst. But while visiting the famous author in her lovely cottage, an old acquaintance of Iona's tumbles off her roof to his death.As Molly begins to feel this story might more Brother's Grimm than happily-ever-after, the questions start to pile up. Why was anyone on the roof at all? Was this all a terrible accident, or was the man pushed? And what, if anything, does this all have to do with the long ago death of Iona's husband and co-author of The Strawberry Girls? When one of Iona's daughters--an inspiration for the original Strawberry Girls--goes missing, Molly must put the clues together before someone successfully turns this sweet tale sour.