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Due For Murder: A Cozy Small Town Mystery
A librarian's quiet life turns deadly when she discovers a visiting scholar murdered in her rare books room.
Diana Foster thought her biggest challenge as head librarian at Moonridge College was managing overdue books and demanding professors. But when she finds renowned historian Dr. Margaret Whitfield dead among centuries-old manuscripts, Diana's research skills become the key to solving a murder that rocks their small Vermont college town.
Margaret's death looks like a tragic allergic reaction—until Diana discovers the victim's life-saving medication was deliberately hidden just out of reach. Partnering with Detective Scott Erickson, Diana uncovers a web of academic fraud, document theft, and institutional corruption that someone was willing to kill to protect.
As Diana delves deeper into Margaret's research on the college's founding, she realizes the historian had stumbled onto secrets that powerful people would do anything to keep buried. With her student assistant Emma and best friend Dr. Helen Roberts, Diana must navigate departmental politics, financial desperation, and decades-old cover-ups to find Margaret's killer.
But the closer Diana gets to the truth, the more dangerous her investigation becomes. In a community where everyone has something to hide, seeking justice for Margaret could cost Diana everything—including her life.
Perfect for fans of Louise Penny and Emily Brewster, Due for Murder launches a compelling new cozy mystery series featuring an amateur sleuth who proves that librarians really do know where all the bodies are buried.
Diana Foster thought her biggest challenge as head librarian at Moonridge College was managing overdue books and demanding professors. But when she finds renowned historian Dr. Margaret Whitfield dead among centuries-old manuscripts, Diana's research skills become the key to solving a murder that rocks their small Vermont college town.
Margaret's death looks like a tragic allergic reaction—until Diana discovers the victim's life-saving medication was deliberately hidden just out of reach. Partnering with Detective Scott Erickson, Diana uncovers a web of academic fraud, document theft, and institutional corruption that someone was willing to kill to protect.
As Diana delves deeper into Margaret's research on the college's founding, she realizes the historian had stumbled onto secrets that powerful people would do anything to keep buried. With her student assistant Emma and best friend Dr. Helen Roberts, Diana must navigate departmental politics, financial desperation, and decades-old cover-ups to find Margaret's killer.
But the closer Diana gets to the truth, the more dangerous her investigation becomes. In a community where everyone has something to hide, seeking justice for Margaret could cost Diana everything—including her life.
Perfect for fans of Louise Penny and Emily Brewster, Due for Murder launches a compelling new cozy mystery series featuring an amateur sleuth who proves that librarians really do know where all the bodies are buried.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 9, 2025
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November 12, 2025
What a deadly dull and boring book. The whole story could have been told in about 10 pages if the lecturing on truth and justice had been left out. It was a free book but I certainly won’t be reading any more in this series.
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