Old Books & Buried Case
(2026)(The third book in the Justine Case Campervan Mystery series)
A novel by Penny Lane-Parker
A broken-down campervan. A cabin full of old mysteries. And a dead man everyone is far too eager to bury.
Jay Case needs somewhere to disappear. Instead, Hemingway coughs his last on a back road in rural Virginia, leaving Jay stranded with fourteen dollars, a basset hound, and no particularly good options.
Then three women from the Silly Goose Mystery Book Club take her in. Their woodland retreat has everything Jay didn't know she needed: campfires, good food, shelves of old books, and absolutely no questions about her past.
Until Mr. Biggles fails to arrive for morning coffee. The beloved local shopkeeper is found dead behind the counter of his general store. The doctor says heart failure. The sheriff is happy to leave it at that. His friends aren't. Because upstairs, hidden above the store, is a remarkable collection of old and forgotten books. And something in that collection was worth killing for.
Jay should stay out of it. She has a warrant with her name on it, a van that won't start, and enough problems of her own. But with three mystery readers already investigating—and Mister Nixon enthusiastically joining the team—staying out of trouble may no longer be an option.
Old Books & Buried Case is a small-town cozy mystery in the Justine Case Campervan Mysteries.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Jay Case needs somewhere to disappear. Instead, Hemingway coughs his last on a back road in rural Virginia, leaving Jay stranded with fourteen dollars, a basset hound, and no particularly good options.
Then three women from the Silly Goose Mystery Book Club take her in. Their woodland retreat has everything Jay didn't know she needed: campfires, good food, shelves of old books, and absolutely no questions about her past.
Until Mr. Biggles fails to arrive for morning coffee. The beloved local shopkeeper is found dead behind the counter of his general store. The doctor says heart failure. The sheriff is happy to leave it at that. His friends aren't. Because upstairs, hidden above the store, is a remarkable collection of old and forgotten books. And something in that collection was worth killing for.
Jay should stay out of it. She has a warrant with her name on it, a van that won't start, and enough problems of her own. But with three mystery readers already investigating—and Mister Nixon enthusiastically joining the team—staying out of trouble may no longer be an option.
Old Books & Buried Case is a small-town cozy mystery in the Justine Case Campervan Mysteries.
Genre: Cozy Mystery