Bookmarked for Murder: A Cozy Bookshop Mystery with a Digital Twist

That changes the morning Edmund Croft walks through her door.

The retired town librarian is carrying a treasure: a first edition of The Silent Garden, the legendary 1932 novel by Cordelia Wren, inscribed with a cryptic dedication to someone called "D." Eddie is trembling — not with age, but with fear. Someone has been in his house, searching for this book. Someone who doesn't want its secrets uncovered.

Hours later, Eddie is dead. The book is gone. And Ellie finds herself at the centre of a mystery that stretches back ninety years, to a forbidden love affair between a brilliant novelist and a wealthy family's daughter — a love that was silenced with threats, asylums, and stolen manuscripts.

Armed with Huxley's growing capabilities — deciphering hidden codes, tracking digital breadcrumbs, building timelines from scattered data — Ellie plunges into an investigation that takes her from an overgrown walled garden to an abandoned print shop to a shuttered asylum. She discovers that Cordelia Wren didn't just stop writing; she was silenced. And the powerful descendants of the family responsible are still protecting their secrets at any cost.

With a silver-haired stranger watching her every move, a Boston lawyer determined to bury the evidence, and a detective who can't officially help, Ellie must use every tool at her disposal — digital and human — to solve the murder, find the missing book, and finally bring a ninety-year-old love story into the light.

Bookmarked for Murder is a warm, clever, and thoroughly modern cozy mystery — perfect for fans of Ellie Alexander, Vicki Delany, and anyone who believes the best detective is a curious bookseller with a brilliant AI by her side.