Escape to a charming seaside town, get to know the lively characters who call this community home, and discover the mysteries in Mary?s Bookshop! When Mary and her sister Betty visit the Ivy Bay lighthouse with their friend Henry, Mary stumbles upon a crude map drawn on the wall. Henry wonders if it might be connected to his ancestor David, who was accused of stealing a large sum of money and a precious family heirloom. Mary decides to investigate, but solving a crime committed almost a century ago isn?t easy ? and a surprising number of people don?t want her to succeed.
Secrets of Mary?s Bookshop . Book 5 After the lights go out during the first meeting of the Winter Warmth Book Chat in Mary?s Mystery Bookshop, Mary realizes a book has been stolen from the front counter. Not just any book, this was a rare signed early edition by Agatha Christie. Mary was selling it to donate the money towards a little girl?s kidney transplant. Now everyone at the Book Chat is a suspect, and Mary has to solve one of her most important mysteries yet . . . in time to help Isabella.
Grieving the loss of her husband while working to open a new bookstore featuring the mystery novels she loves, Mary moves in with her sister, reconnects with old friends, and attempts to solve a mystery of her own.
One night, while Mary is working late at the bookshop, a shadowy figure leaves a box of books at her door. All of the books have beautiful covers clearly done by the same artist, and inside each book is an old letter addressed to a man named Jacob. To Mary's shock, the letters were written by her mother. The letters would simply be a sweet ode to young love, but the last letter hints at regret that could change everything Mary and Betty thought they knew about their mother. Who left Mary these books, and how did they get the letters?
One of the continuing series of Mary's Mystery Bookshop. Set in a small town on Cape Cod.
Grace Church is putting on its first ever living nativity, and the congregation members are all pitching in, including Mary Fisher, owner of Mary’s Mystery Bookshop. But only a week before Christmas, the costumes go missing.
When Mary tries to refinance the mortgage on the bookshop, her application is denied because of the large balance on her new credit card. But she hasn't opened a new account and certainly hasn't been on any spending spree. Mary is the victim of identity theft! Mary has to prove the credit card isn't hers, which means finding the person who stole her personal information. Who has access? The postal carrier who keeps redirecting mail to his own pockets? The nurse of the women's clinic where Mary applied to volunteer? Or the woman in charge of the matchmaking fund-raiser that Mary was persuaded to sign up for? As she races to clear her name, she realizes that the true identity of her identity theft could be the person she least suspects.
One day Mary notices a young woman sitting in her bookshop. As the afternoon passes, the woman remains, pretending to read a book and clearly waiting for someone who never arrives. When Mary approaches her, she tearfully confesses that she doesn't remember anything before that day. The only clue she has to her identity is a note she found in her pocket when she woke up on the beach, which says, "Katie, arrive at Mary's bookshop at 1:12." Mary takes Katie under her wing, and together they scour Ivy Bay for clues to discover who Katie really is. But after learning about a recent mugging in town as well as a man who seems to be following Katie, Mary thinks the more important question might be what - or who - caused Katie to lose her memory in the first place?