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A Script for Murder: A bookshop mystery about a TV adaptation, a dead showrunner, and the danger of turning real pain into binge-watch fodder.
A TV crew in your bookshop. A dead showrunner on the set. And a script that reads like a confession.
When a major streaming platform rolls into Thornbridge to film a limited series based on Harbour Lights and Riley Knox’s Secret Pages casebooks, the whole town signs on as extras, drivers, and fixers. Secret Pages is getting more attention than it ever has, and the production money is keeping half the high street open.
Then, during a night shoot in a painstaking replica of the shop, showrunner Dylan Frost is found hanging from a safety harness on the fake shop floor. The studio calls it a tragic accident. The PR team wants a tribute episode and a tidy statement.
Riley has read enough scripts to know when a story has been staged.
With cameras still rolling and jobs on the line, Riley and Chief Noah Hart start picking through stunt plans, footage and rewrites. The safety rig was quietly swapped. A true-crime consultant’s “real” anecdotes fall apart on contact with the files. And Dylan was about to tear up the script in a way that would expose someone’s favourite lies about Thornbridge.
Now Riley has to decide how far she will go to protect the real people behind the “based on true events” tag line, even if it means wrecking the show built from her own books.
A Script for Murder is Book 6 in the Secret Pages Bookshop Mysteries, a clean, bookish cozy series set in a small English town, with no gore, no swearing, and a very opinionated cat.
When a major streaming platform rolls into Thornbridge to film a limited series based on Harbour Lights and Riley Knox’s Secret Pages casebooks, the whole town signs on as extras, drivers, and fixers. Secret Pages is getting more attention than it ever has, and the production money is keeping half the high street open.
Then, during a night shoot in a painstaking replica of the shop, showrunner Dylan Frost is found hanging from a safety harness on the fake shop floor. The studio calls it a tragic accident. The PR team wants a tribute episode and a tidy statement.
Riley has read enough scripts to know when a story has been staged.
With cameras still rolling and jobs on the line, Riley and Chief Noah Hart start picking through stunt plans, footage and rewrites. The safety rig was quietly swapped. A true-crime consultant’s “real” anecdotes fall apart on contact with the files. And Dylan was about to tear up the script in a way that would expose someone’s favourite lies about Thornbridge.
Now Riley has to decide how far she will go to protect the real people behind the “based on true events” tag line, even if it means wrecking the show built from her own books.
A Script for Murder is Book 6 in the Secret Pages Bookshop Mysteries, a clean, bookish cozy series set in a small English town, with no gore, no swearing, and a very opinionated cat.
420 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 10, 2025
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