The Auction Catalog Murder
(2026)(The fourth book in the Foxglove & Ink Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
Brambewick’s Autumn Antiques Auction is meant to be a weekend of polished silver, country-house glamour, and the kind of prestigious clientele that could finally push Foxglove & Ink into safer territory.
Then the event cataloguer is found dead in the locked map room.
For Edie Harlow, the timing could not be worse. She has poured everything into this commission, from restoring fragile paper lots to writing descriptions that might finally bring her shop the reputation it deserves. But when one overlooked framed piece is quietly downgraded in the catalogue, a misprinted jacket disappears, and a hidden survey packet points to land that was never meant to be sold at all, Edie knows Arthur Denby did not die over an ordinary auction dispute.
He died because he found something buried behind the wrong frame.
As bidders gather, tempers flare, and old families scramble to keep control of the story, Edie is drawn into a case involving forged titles, estate pressure, redevelopment money, and a paper trail leading straight into the heart of Bramblewick’s most respectable institutions. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that this murder is not about antiques.
It is about who profited from land that should never have been theirs.
Now Edie must uncover the truth before the auction opens, the wrong suspect takes the blame, and Foxglove & Ink is buried under another scandal it may not survive.
The Auction Catalog Murder is Book 4 in the Foxglove & Ink Mysteries, a cozy mystery series filled with village intrigue, clever clues, autumn atmosphere, and a sharp-eyed sleuth who knows paper can hide theft just as neatly as it hides murder.
Genre: Mystery
Then the event cataloguer is found dead in the locked map room.
For Edie Harlow, the timing could not be worse. She has poured everything into this commission, from restoring fragile paper lots to writing descriptions that might finally bring her shop the reputation it deserves. But when one overlooked framed piece is quietly downgraded in the catalogue, a misprinted jacket disappears, and a hidden survey packet points to land that was never meant to be sold at all, Edie knows Arthur Denby did not die over an ordinary auction dispute.
He died because he found something buried behind the wrong frame.
As bidders gather, tempers flare, and old families scramble to keep control of the story, Edie is drawn into a case involving forged titles, estate pressure, redevelopment money, and a paper trail leading straight into the heart of Bramblewick’s most respectable institutions. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that this murder is not about antiques.
It is about who profited from land that should never have been theirs.
Now Edie must uncover the truth before the auction opens, the wrong suspect takes the blame, and Foxglove & Ink is buried under another scandal it may not survive.
The Auction Catalog Murder is Book 4 in the Foxglove & Ink Mysteries, a cozy mystery series filled with village intrigue, clever clues, autumn atmosphere, and a sharp-eyed sleuth who knows paper can hide theft just as neatly as it hides murder.
Genre: Mystery
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