Murder in the Margins
(2027)(The third book in the Timothy Trousdale Mystery series)
A novel by Richard Tyler Jordan
A cozy amateur-sleuth mystery about a dead author’s archive, a decades-old literary scandal, and a would-be novelist who keeps stumbling into murder instead of a book deal—witty and bookish!
Timothy Trousdale came to New York to become a bestselling author. Instead, he keeps getting sidetracked by murder. So when he lands a temp job cataloguing the personal papers of the late mystery novelist Eleanor Fairchild—a writer he’s adored his whole life—it feels less like office work than destiny. Decades of manuscripts, letters, and unpublished drafts, all his to sort through.
Then the assistant who hired him turns up dead.
The deeper Timothy digs into Fairchild’s archive, the more he uncovers: a buried literary scandal of rival authors, plagiarism, and a secret powerful people in publishing have spent years keeping quiet. One of the industry’s great success stories, he begins to suspect, was built on a lie—and Eleanor Fairchild’s greatest mystery was never the kind she wrote on the page.
With rival heirs, literary insiders, and old grudges closing in, Timothy has his devoted boyfriend Brad at his side and an uncanny knack for noticing exactly what others would rather he missed. He’ll need both—before someone decides the safest ending is the one where he never reaches the final chapter.
Perfect for readers who love:
– Bookish, publishing-world cozy mysteries
– A witty amateur sleuth with a devoted partner
– Warm, humorous, twist-filled whodunits
– Literary scandal, buried secrets, and dangerous legacies
Genre: Mystery
Timothy Trousdale came to New York to become a bestselling author. Instead, he keeps getting sidetracked by murder. So when he lands a temp job cataloguing the personal papers of the late mystery novelist Eleanor Fairchild—a writer he’s adored his whole life—it feels less like office work than destiny. Decades of manuscripts, letters, and unpublished drafts, all his to sort through.
Then the assistant who hired him turns up dead.
The deeper Timothy digs into Fairchild’s archive, the more he uncovers: a buried literary scandal of rival authors, plagiarism, and a secret powerful people in publishing have spent years keeping quiet. One of the industry’s great success stories, he begins to suspect, was built on a lie—and Eleanor Fairchild’s greatest mystery was never the kind she wrote on the page.
With rival heirs, literary insiders, and old grudges closing in, Timothy has his devoted boyfriend Brad at his side and an uncanny knack for noticing exactly what others would rather he missed. He’ll need both—before someone decides the safest ending is the one where he never reaches the final chapter.
Perfect for readers who love:
– Bookish, publishing-world cozy mysteries
– A witty amateur sleuth with a devoted partner
– Warm, humorous, twist-filled whodunits
– Literary scandal, buried secrets, and dangerous legacies
Genre: Mystery