Death on the Seating Chart
(2026)(The second book in the Foxglove & Ink Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
At Bramblewick’s glittering Winter House Charity Gala, everything is arranged to perfection. The donor cards are in place, the seating chart is final, and the town’s wealthiest families are ready to toast another polished evening of good works and old-money charm.
Then the gala treasurer is found dead in the museum cloakroom.
For Edie Harlow, the timing could not be worse. Foxglove & Ink has only just survived one scandal, and another society murder tied to her stationery could finish her business for good. But when Edie notices that the victim’s seat was changed at the last minute, a fake cloakroom ticket was crafted from donor-grade card stock, and one crucial paper has vanished from the dead man'''s possession, she knows this was no random act of violence.
As winter closes in on Bramblewick, Edie is pulled into a case involving museum patrons, committee secrets, missing records, and a family history someone has spent years protecting. The more she uncovers, the clearer it becomes that Cedric Bellamy did not die over gala money alone. He died because he was about to expose the wrong name on the wrong page.
Now Edie must untangle a murder hidden behind frost, charity, and respectability before the town settles on a convenient suspect and Foxglove & Ink is buried in the fallout.
Death on the Seating Chart is Book 2 in the Foxglove & Ink Mysteries, a cozy mystery series filled with village intrigue, clever clues, winter atmosphere, and a sharp-eyed sleuth who knows paper can kill just as surely as poison.
Genre: Mystery
Then the gala treasurer is found dead in the museum cloakroom.
For Edie Harlow, the timing could not be worse. Foxglove & Ink has only just survived one scandal, and another society murder tied to her stationery could finish her business for good. But when Edie notices that the victim’s seat was changed at the last minute, a fake cloakroom ticket was crafted from donor-grade card stock, and one crucial paper has vanished from the dead man'''s possession, she knows this was no random act of violence.
As winter closes in on Bramblewick, Edie is pulled into a case involving museum patrons, committee secrets, missing records, and a family history someone has spent years protecting. The more she uncovers, the clearer it becomes that Cedric Bellamy did not die over gala money alone. He died because he was about to expose the wrong name on the wrong page.
Now Edie must untangle a murder hidden behind frost, charity, and respectability before the town settles on a convenient suspect and Foxglove & Ink is buried in the fallout.
Death on the Seating Chart is Book 2 in the Foxglove & Ink Mysteries, a cozy mystery series filled with village intrigue, clever clues, winter atmosphere, and a sharp-eyed sleuth who knows paper can kill just as surely as poison.
Genre: Mystery
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