Murder in the Margins Vol. 1

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Regular Print — the classic 6″ × 9″ paperback. Slips into a tote bag, perfect for the armchair, the train, or the café table. $9.99

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Nobody writes in the margins of a book they mean to forget.

Juliet Marston has been a bookseller long enough to know you never just inherit a shop — you inherit whatever the shop was keeping. In one of her late great-aunt's unshelved boxes she finds a worn copy of Persuasion, and in its margin, a penciled message about the one name Brambleford stopped saying forty years ago: Eliza Cooke, the author who vanished before her last book was finished. Her aunt never mentioned Eliza. Not once.

This first volume opens the Austen shelf: 100 cozy murder-mystery word-search cases of assembly rooms, misdirected letters, and suspects who are nowhere near as agreeable as they seem. Four scenes to a case — find the evidence, find the suspects, and mind what turns up twice — with puzzles that grow from Apprentice to Master Sleuth as you go. And at the back, a sealed finale that holds the first piece of a much older mystery.

Warm shop, clever puzzles, and a trail of pencil marks you'll follow all the way to the last book.

For readers who love the cozy wit of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club — but wish they could solve along. From the imprint behind Murder, She Searched.

Pour the tea. Sharpen the pencil. Mind the margins.

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A note on shipping: Every book is printed in and shipped from your own country, whether you're in the US, Canada, Australia, or the UK. For almost every order that means no international shipping and no customs fees. What you see at checkout is truly all you'll pay. Postal rates in some countries (looking at you, Canada and Australia) do run higher than any of us would like, so if the shipping on your order feels steep, our Printable Editions are the same puzzles as an instant download in our large print size, with nothing to ship and nothing to wait for.

Canadian readers, one exception. Our Canadian printer cannot produce the Large Print paperbacks, so those orders ship from the UK by FedEx. They take longer to arrive, and customs charges may be collected at your door on delivery. If you would rather skip both, the Printable Editions are the same large print puzzles.