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Newfound Lake Cozy Mystery #33
Beyond a Shadow of a Sprout: A Newfound Lake Cozy Mystery
When the town librarian is an avid mystery and true-crime reader, the local law enforcement must need a book-smart assistant like her, right?
When February rolls around, most people are looking forward to Valentine’s Day, but the town’s librarian, Rebecca Towne, is thinking about going out for a double date on Groundhog Day instead. With a month of library fundraisers in her future, the first is being hosted by The Steadfast, a local restaurant Rebecca and her police-chief husband enjoy. They’re going out with Mary, a widowed library volunteer, on her first date in decades. It’s not like anything bad can happen on Groundhog Day.
With not one, not two, but three medical emergencies popping up throughout the first week of February, Rebecca is beginning to feel like she’s living in a movie, and not one she wants to see over and over again. But a question begins to Are these events connected?
Will Rebecca be able to predict a reason for all the chaos, or is it possible that some deeper danger lurks, burrowed, hoping to stay in the shadows, never to see the light of day?
When February rolls around, most people are looking forward to Valentine’s Day, but the town’s librarian, Rebecca Towne, is thinking about going out for a double date on Groundhog Day instead. With a month of library fundraisers in her future, the first is being hosted by The Steadfast, a local restaurant Rebecca and her police-chief husband enjoy. They’re going out with Mary, a widowed library volunteer, on her first date in decades. It’s not like anything bad can happen on Groundhog Day.
With not one, not two, but three medical emergencies popping up throughout the first week of February, Rebecca is beginning to feel like she’s living in a movie, and not one she wants to see over and over again. But a question begins to Are these events connected?
Will Rebecca be able to predict a reason for all the chaos, or is it possible that some deeper danger lurks, burrowed, hoping to stay in the shadows, never to see the light of day?
89 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 29, 2026
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February 1, 2026
"Beyond a Shadow of a Sprout (A Newfound Lake Cozy Mystery Book 33)" by Virginia K. Bennett has Rebecca thinking something is going on that she keeps encountering medical emergencies at restaurants in town. Could they just be a coincidence? Or is there something more going on?
I kept thinking it has to be somehow connected to Rebecca. Especially since she kept being conveniently on hand to assist. Plus, it's nearly her and Kenny's 1 year anniversary of their wedding. Things did have a twist I wasn't quite expecting though.
I kept thinking it has to be somehow connected to Rebecca. Especially since she kept being conveniently on hand to assist. Plus, it's nearly her and Kenny's 1 year anniversary of their wedding. Things did have a twist I wasn't quite expecting though.
January 30, 2026
I loved it!!!
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