Paige Shelton’s Lost Books and Old Bones

Paige Shelton is now a regular visitor to the Poisoned Pen, as an author who moved to Arizona, and as an audience member. How could we resist sharing CriminalElement‘s .GIFNotes about her new book, Lost Bones and Old Bones? The new Scottish bookshop mystery is due out April 3, but you can order a signed copy now. https://bit.ly/2DGtk6G

Lost Books

Here’s the actual description of the book.

A delightful new mystery featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols, set in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town. The shop is a place filled with curiosities and surprises tucked into every shelf, and it’s Delaney’s job to research the rare tomes and obscure artifacts that people come to buy and sell. When her new friends, also students at the medical school, come to the shop to sell a collection of antique medical books, Delaney knows she’s stumbled across a rare and important find indeed. Her boss, Edwin MacAlister, agrees to buy the multivolume set, perhaps even to keep for his own collection.

But not long after the sale, one of Delaney’s new friends is found murdered in the alley behind the Cracked Spine, and she wonders if there is some nefarious connection between the origin of these books and the people whose hands they fell into. Delaney takes it upon herself to help bring the murderer to justice. During her investigation, Delaney she finds some old scalpels in the bookshop’s warehouse—she and discovers that they belonged to a long-dead doctor whose story and ties to thepast crimes of Burke and Hare might be connected to the present-day murder. It’s all Delaney can do to race to solve this crime before time runs out and she ends up in a victim on the slab herself.

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And, here’s the link to Adam Wagner’s fun .GIFNotes. https://bit.ly/2GIQMDb