Murder in Time Capsule
(2026)(The fifth book in the Isabella Brookstone Mystery series)
A novel by Fiona Finch
Welcome to Whimsy Hollow—where a long-buried time capsule is supposed to deliver nostalgia, not a body.
Librarian-sleuth Isabella Brookstone expects smiling speeches and old memories when the town digs up its twenty-five-year-old capsule. Instead, a ‘curse letter’ surfaces, whispers ignite, and journalist Owen Hale collapses on the library lawn. The town calls it fate. Isabella calls it a cover story.
With her sharp-eyed tabby Whiskers and steady-but-stubborn cop Jack Larson, Isabella follows a trail of missing scholarship funds, burned records, and a suspicious gap in the ceremony audio—proof someone wasn’t where they claimed to be. Then a teacher nearly dies in a staged ‘accident,’ and the message turns clear: stop digging.
Someone has been scripting Whimsy Hollow’s past for decades. To expose the truth, Isabella turns the library into bait—before the next secret turns deadly.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Librarian-sleuth Isabella Brookstone expects smiling speeches and old memories when the town digs up its twenty-five-year-old capsule. Instead, a ‘curse letter’ surfaces, whispers ignite, and journalist Owen Hale collapses on the library lawn. The town calls it fate. Isabella calls it a cover story.
With her sharp-eyed tabby Whiskers and steady-but-stubborn cop Jack Larson, Isabella follows a trail of missing scholarship funds, burned records, and a suspicious gap in the ceremony audio—proof someone wasn’t where they claimed to be. Then a teacher nearly dies in a staged ‘accident,’ and the message turns clear: stop digging.
Someone has been scripting Whimsy Hollow’s past for decades. To expose the truth, Isabella turns the library into bait—before the next secret turns deadly.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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