The Secret in the Stacks
By Kat Finn
- Release Date: 2025-12-06
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
A mysterious letter hidden in a valuable book leads a novice bookshop owner to uncover a decades-old disappearance in a quaint coastal town.
A former librarian turned bookshop owner uses her literary expertise and newfound amateur sleuthing skills to solve a decades-old missing person case in a small coastal town, uncovering long-held secrets and finding her place in a close-knit community.
When Olivia Paige inherits her aunt's bookshop in charming Millbrook Cove, she expects a quiet life surrounded by books. But a cryptic letter discovered in a rare edition of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" plunges her into a 30-year-old cold case. As Olivia investigates, she clashes with skeptical locals and forms unlikely alliances, including a gruff fisherman with surprising literary knowledge. With her keen analytical mind and vast knowledge of mystery novels, Olivia must piece together clues from dusty records and town gossip to solve a long-buried secret—and possibly put herself in the crosshairs of a killer who thought their crime was long forgotten.
Reviews
No editing?
1By Parental74Either terrible AI used to edit or terrible writing skills. Physician who wrote letter was Dr. Dodge, another chapter in he’s called Dr. Blackthorn then back to Dodge. Main character just moves to town and less than a day in is talking about townspeople as though living there years. She calls her friend Jen then - nothing until remembering her at the very end with no real info on her, just at end saying “she was always there for me”. She jumps to memorial ceremony for one of many victims (don’t know who?) and laughs after with cop in poor taste that a solstice event probably shouldn’t happen (because of sacrifices that upset the town after earlier expressing empathy for them?). Seriously, I’ve read dozens of mysteries from many authors and this is at the bottom with the worst as though a 4th grader tried to write it with a limit of 100 pages to work with. Terrible attention deficit discombobulated writing with poor editing. Definitely will not be reading any others in this series.
