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Cozy Mystery Book Club

Join us to discuss a different cozy mystery on the 3rd Thursday of each month at the Leonardtown Library. Be ready to talk about a genre that puts us all at ease while keeping us on our toes.

Join us as we wrap up Summer with Little Bookshop of Murder by Maggie Blackburn, the first in the Beach Reads Mystery series.

Summer Merriweather’s plans to spend her summer vacation full of Shakespeare and scholarly prestige are cut short after her mother’s death, from an apparent heart attack. She returns home for the funeral and to sell her mom’s embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore, Beach Reads. At least that was the plan until she goes in Beach Reads and finds a note addressed to her mother: “Sell the bookstore or die.”

Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid’s Island. The police insist there’s not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing. But there are more suspects than are dreamt of in the Bard’s darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can’t find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy’s worth of corpses—including her own.

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