Books, Brew, and Beginnings: A Piper Page Cozy Mystery
By Lucy Penbrook
Every good mystery starts with a first chapter. Hers came with a theft.
Piper Page has waited her whole life to open the doors of Books and Brew – her grandmother’s bookstore-cafe, finally hers, finally ready. Fresh paint. Fresh coffee. A ribbon, a pair of oversized scissors, and half of Maplebrook crowded inside to watch.
Then the first-edition Hemingway disappears from the display case.
With her opening-day reputation on the line and her grandmother’s legacy hanging in the balance, Piper enlists her sharp-tongued best friend Zoe, a bakery’s worth of Evie’s banana bread, and one tuxedo cat with an unsettling instinct for sitting exactly where the evidence is. Between shady collectors, hidden cameras, and an ex who already cost her more than she’d like to admit, Piper is about to learn that the thief has been standing in her shop the whole time.
Welcome to Maplebrook, Kansas. Population: nosy.
Books, Brew, and Beginnings is the prequel novella to the Maplebrook Cozy Mysteries – a clean, small-town whodunit with no gore, no on-page violence, and a cat who has never once been sorry.
Every good mystery starts with a first chapter. Hers came with a theft.
Piper Page has waited her whole life to open the doors of Books and Brew – her grandmother’s bookstore-cafe, finally hers, finally ready. Fresh paint. Fresh coffee. A ribbon, a pair of oversized scissors, and half of Maplebrook crowded inside to watch.
Then the first-edition Hemingway disappears from the display case.
With her opening-day reputation on the line and her grandmother’s legacy hanging in the balance, Piper enlists her sharp-tongued best friend Zoe, a bakery’s worth of Evie’s banana bread, and one tuxedo cat with an unsettling instinct for sitting exactly where the evidence is. Between shady collectors, hidden cameras, and an ex who already cost her more than she’d like to admit, Piper is about to learn that the thief has been standing in her shop the whole time.
Welcome to Maplebrook, Kansas. Population: nosy.
Books, Brew, and Beginnings is the prequel novella to the Maplebrook Cozy Mysteries – a clean, small-town whodunit with no gore, no on-page violence, and a cat who has never once been sorry.