Mostly Murders

Book 1 in the California Bookshop Mystery series.

After being dumped by her boyfriend and business partner, Scarlett has single-handedly managed to achieve her dream of having a bookstore by the seashore in sunny Southern California. But her cozy bookworm routines are suddenly interrupted when she finds a dead body under the pier near her bookstore and becomes a murder suspect. To clear her name, Scarlett teams up with her lawyer friend and roommate Lucia and begins to work her way through her own list of suspects.

But somewhere in the cozy, sunny town of Oceanside, a murderer is on the loose, and the more Scarlett investigates, the more it seems that the murderer is someone much closer to her than is comfortable.

A fun, summer themed, light mystery with a likeable amateur sleuth, colourful sidekick characters and a quaint seaside setting. A book for cozy mystery lovers who want a beach read book about the beach and books.

Cozy mystery – Contemporary