Cozy Mystery · Mira Ellsworth
The Lark & Quill Mysteries
A Boston editor inherits a Vermont bookshop and a talent for finding bodies. The sheriff would like her to stop. She will not.
3 books
Heat 1–2
3 in the catalogue
What this series is
- Setting
- Heddleford, VT. Bookshop, inn, bakery, town green, winter.
- How it works
- Case-of-the-book + series-long slow-burn with Sheriff Hugh Kline + a quiet conspiracy about the aunt’s death.
- Book 1 hook
- A rare-book dealer dies between the stacks on Helen’s first week as owner.
- Heat
- 1–2 of 5 — what the numbers mean
Reading order
Each book is one complete couple with its own ending, so none of them leaves you hanging on the romance. What runs across the series is the case-of-the-book + series-long slow-burn with sheriff hugh kline + a quiet conspiracy about the aunt’s death — and that only makes sense in order.
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01A Killer Between the Pages
In production
A Boston editor inherits a Vermont bookshop. In week one, a rare-book dealer dies between the stacks. The sheriff would like her to leave the tape alone. She does not.
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02Dead On Arrival (mail)
In production
A poisoned package arrives at the Lark & Quill. It was not meant for Helen Brig—it was meant for anyone who inherited Aunt Eleanor’s routing.
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03The Quilted Alibi
In production
A quilt-show death. An endpaper hidden in a square. Helen Brig is thirty-four and she can tell when fabric is lying. Sheriff Hugh Kline is thirty-eight and he asked her to pie, not wine.
Who you will be reading about
One couple per book. These are the leads, not the plot.
- Book 01
- Helen Brig (34) × Sheriff Hugh Kline (38)
What you get
01The book
Perfect-bound paperback, matte laminate, or a case-laminate hardcover at
6 × 9 in. Yours to keep, lend and re-read.
03It ships
Tracked post, one parcel per pen name, dispatched within
3 to 5 working days.