The Bookshop Body in the Bargain Bin

Coraline Pike runs the bargain bin at the Book Nook — the basement nobody visits, the paperbacks nobody wants, and the cat who judges everyone. Then a body turns up behind the clearance shelf, and her boss is hauled off in handcuffs. Cory has a bookseller's nose and a former life helping a cantankerous antiquarian spot fakes. That nose says the real killer is somewhere in the rare-book trade. Between a coded ledger sewn into a forged first edition, two more deaths staged as accidents, and an antiquarian fair full of genteel sharks, Cory has to swap her bargain-bin badge for a dealer's lanyard and go undercover. She's one map room away from the truth — and one cat yowl away from a killer who'd love to shelve her permanently.