The Final Chapter Fatality
(2025)(The sixth book in the Lucy Blackstone Mystery series)
A Story by Maisy Marple and Wendy Winchester
Some secrets are worth killing for...
When bestselling mystery author Eloise "Ellie" Whitaker is found strangled with a typewriter ribbon during the Brentwood Falls Library's Murder Mystery Night, librarian Lucy Blackstone is horrified. What was supposed to be an evening of fictional suspense has become all too real—and the irony isn't lost on Lucy that Ellie died by the very tools of her trade.
As Lucy searches for answers, she discovers Ellie wasn't just in town for a book event—she was investigating a decades-old mystery involving a young writer named Katherine Wells, whose apparent suicide and mysteriously destroyed manuscript have haunted Brentwood Falls for twenty-five years.
When Ellie's own manuscript goes missing, Lucy realizes the two deaths might be connected. With the help of her best friend Hazel and Ellie's dedicated assistant Emma, Lucy follows a trail of literary breadcrumbs through early drafts, hidden codes, and suspicious revisions. The truth seems to lie in Ellie's early novels co-written with her ex-partner Wade Pennington—novels that might contain secrets someone would kill to keep buried.
As Lucy gets closer to the truth, the killer strikes again. Now she must set a trap of her own design to catch a murderer who knows how to craft the perfect ending��one where Lucy doesn't live to tell the tale.
Perfect for fans of:
�� Book-themed cozy mysteries
• Clever librarian sleuths
• Small-town secrets with literary twists
Join Lucy Blackstone in this final installment of her beloved mystery series as she proves once again that sometimes the most dangerous plots aren't found in books, but in the hearts of those who write them.
Genre: Mystery
When bestselling mystery author Eloise "Ellie" Whitaker is found strangled with a typewriter ribbon during the Brentwood Falls Library's Murder Mystery Night, librarian Lucy Blackstone is horrified. What was supposed to be an evening of fictional suspense has become all too real—and the irony isn't lost on Lucy that Ellie died by the very tools of her trade.
As Lucy searches for answers, she discovers Ellie wasn't just in town for a book event—she was investigating a decades-old mystery involving a young writer named Katherine Wells, whose apparent suicide and mysteriously destroyed manuscript have haunted Brentwood Falls for twenty-five years.
When Ellie's own manuscript goes missing, Lucy realizes the two deaths might be connected. With the help of her best friend Hazel and Ellie's dedicated assistant Emma, Lucy follows a trail of literary breadcrumbs through early drafts, hidden codes, and suspicious revisions. The truth seems to lie in Ellie's early novels co-written with her ex-partner Wade Pennington—novels that might contain secrets someone would kill to keep buried.
As Lucy gets closer to the truth, the killer strikes again. Now she must set a trap of her own design to catch a murderer who knows how to craft the perfect ending��one where Lucy doesn't live to tell the tale.
Perfect for fans of:
�� Book-themed cozy mysteries
• Clever librarian sleuths
• Small-town secrets with literary twists
Join Lucy Blackstone in this final installment of her beloved mystery series as she proves once again that sometimes the most dangerous plots aren't found in books, but in the hearts of those who write them.
Genre: Mystery
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