Cards of Deception
(2025)(The third book in the Verses & Victims Mystery series)
A novel by Hailey Hartley
Harper Sinclair loves her job creating custom greeting cards at Heartfelt Verses in the charming town of Riverside Bluffs. When stressed businessman Richard Caldwell commissions an anniversary card with an unusually cryptic message, Harper tries to suggest something more romantic—but he insists on the exact, ominous wording. Days later, Richard is found dead before he can even pick up the card, and what seemed like a simple heart attack begins to look far more sinister. With her rescue cat Wordsworth providing moral support from his window perch, Harper can't shake the feeling that those carefully chosen words were meant to tell someone something important.
As Harper digs deeper with help from her florist best friend Jenna and retired English teacher Ollie, she uncovers thirty years of secrets hidden beneath the surface of Riverside Bluffs' business community. The more questions she asks, the more dangerous things become—and when her shop is ransacked and threatening messages arrive, Harper realizes she's gotten too close to a truth someone is desperate to keep buried. Between dodging warnings from the local detective and piecing together financial clues with the help of sharp-minded librarian Nina, Harper must decode what Richard's cryptic card really meant before the killer strikes again.
In this delightful cozy mystery filled with witty banter, loyal friendships, and a cat who judges from afar, Harper discovers that sometimes the most important messages are written between the lines. Can a greeting card writer crack the code and bring a murderer to justice, or will her curiosity lead her into danger she can't write her way out of? One thing's certain—Harper will never look at an anniversary card the same way again.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
As Harper digs deeper with help from her florist best friend Jenna and retired English teacher Ollie, she uncovers thirty years of secrets hidden beneath the surface of Riverside Bluffs' business community. The more questions she asks, the more dangerous things become—and when her shop is ransacked and threatening messages arrive, Harper realizes she's gotten too close to a truth someone is desperate to keep buried. Between dodging warnings from the local detective and piecing together financial clues with the help of sharp-minded librarian Nina, Harper must decode what Richard's cryptic card really meant before the killer strikes again.
In this delightful cozy mystery filled with witty banter, loyal friendships, and a cat who judges from afar, Harper discovers that sometimes the most important messages are written between the lines. Can a greeting card writer crack the code and bring a murderer to justice, or will her curiosity lead her into danger she can't write her way out of? One thing's certain—Harper will never look at an anniversary card the same way again.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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