The Festival Program Murder
(2026)(The third book in the Foxglove & Ink Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
Bramblewick’s Book and Bloom Festival is meant to celebrate beautiful stories, literary prestige, and the kind of summer charm that keeps the town on every must-visit list in the county.
Instead, it opens with murder.
When celebrity biographer Callum Vane announces he is about to correct Bramblewick’s most treasured romantic legend, the room turns icy fast. Minutes later, he is found dead in the festival preview room, and a tampered proof packet from Foxglove & Ink is lying beside the body.
For Edie Harlow, the timing is a disaster. Her stationery shop has only just recovered from one scandal after another, and now someone has used her own festival materials to drag her straight back into the center of a murder investigation. But Edie can see what others miss: a forged correction slip, a missing manuscript leaf, and a paper trail leading into the polished heart of Bramblewick’s cultural pride.
As the festival fills with authors, donors, rival booksellers, and people with very good reasons to protect the town’s favorite story, Edie uncovers a case built on literary ambition, hidden records, and an old lie dressed up as romance. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that Callum Vane did not die for stirring controversy.
He died because he found the wrong name on the wrong page.
The Festival Program Murder is Book 3 in the Foxglove & Ink Mysteries, a cozy mystery series filled with village scandal, clever clues, bookish atmosphere, and a sharp-eyed sleuth who knows paper can hide murder as neatly as it hides history.
Genre: Mystery
Instead, it opens with murder.
When celebrity biographer Callum Vane announces he is about to correct Bramblewick’s most treasured romantic legend, the room turns icy fast. Minutes later, he is found dead in the festival preview room, and a tampered proof packet from Foxglove & Ink is lying beside the body.
For Edie Harlow, the timing is a disaster. Her stationery shop has only just recovered from one scandal after another, and now someone has used her own festival materials to drag her straight back into the center of a murder investigation. But Edie can see what others miss: a forged correction slip, a missing manuscript leaf, and a paper trail leading into the polished heart of Bramblewick’s cultural pride.
As the festival fills with authors, donors, rival booksellers, and people with very good reasons to protect the town’s favorite story, Edie uncovers a case built on literary ambition, hidden records, and an old lie dressed up as romance. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that Callum Vane did not die for stirring controversy.
He died because he found the wrong name on the wrong page.
The Festival Program Murder is Book 3 in the Foxglove & Ink Mysteries, a cozy mystery series filled with village scandal, clever clues, bookish atmosphere, and a sharp-eyed sleuth who knows paper can hide murder as neatly as it hides history.
Genre: Mystery
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