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Snow days aren't supposed to end with dead bodies.
After shoveling snow from Main Street, bookstore owner Harvey Beckett is ready to enjoy a quiet evening—until the new bartender in town turns up dead.
As she digs into the victim’s mysterious alias, she unveils secrets that could cost her everything. Is the next target closer than she thinks?
Join Harvey and her friends in Scripted to Slay, a gripping St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery, where warm friendships, charming small-town life, and nail-biting suspense collide.
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Praise for St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Books can teach us to be better humans—this one does!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harvey and Max find common ground solving a shocking murder.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A wonderfully intricate plot with a great protagonist.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A thought-provoking read on disability and human empathy.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Full of twists and turns—kept me guessing till the end!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I ended up buying all nine books in the series!
ACF Bookens loves a good mystery, a quaint bookshop, and a good cup of coffee. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she takes joy in the mountain views and the quiet back roads. She lives with her son and three rescue cats who are, of course, nocturnal. Aslan, the cat in her books, is based on her departed first cat by that name, who spent an inordinate amount of time digging up her houseplants.
In her books, Bookens addresses issues of justice and writes with intention to disrupt the white supremacy that says that "whiteness" is normal by making purposeful note of every character's ethnicity. She is weary of books that assume everyone is white unless the author says otherwise because being white is not the default of reality. Her hope is that readers enjoy escaping into her stories and are challenged, just a little, to make themselves better people and the world a better place from the reading.