In Elizabeth Penneys Chapter and Curse Molly Kimball is used to cracking open books . . . but when a poetry reading ends in murder she must use her skills to crack the case. A MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD NOMINEE! With its bucolic British setting engaging heroine and unsolved murder dating back decades Elizabeth Penney has penned the perfect cozy.-Ellen Byron USA Today Bestselling Author Librarian Molly Kimball and her mother Nina need a change. So when a letter arrives from Ninas Aunt Violet in Cambridge England requesting their help running the family bookshop they jump at the chance. Thomas Marlowe--Manuscripts and Folios is one of the oldest bookshops in Cambridge and--unfortunately--customers can tell. When Molly and Nina arrive spring has come to Cambridge and the famed Cambridge Literary Festival is underway. Determined to bring much-needed revenue to the bookstore Molly invites Aunt Violets college classmate and famed poet Persephone Brightwell to hold a poetry reading in the shop. But the event ends in disaster when a guest is found dead--with Mollys great-aunts knitting needle used as the murder weapon. While trying to clear Violet and keep the struggling shop afloat Molly sifts through secrets past and present untangling a web of blackmail deceit and murder.
