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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

A Treacherous Tale by Elizabeth Penney

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Also by Elizabeth Penney:

Dungeons And Danger, June 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Vows and Villainy, December 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Bodies and Battlements, June 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Madrigals and Mayhem, December 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Fatal Folio, November 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Cozy Case Files, August 2023
e-Book
A Treacherous Tale, September 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Chapter and Curse, October 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Bodies and Bows, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Thread and Dead, September 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Hems and Homicide, January 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

A TREACHEROUS TALE
By: Elizabeth Penney

Cambridge Bookshop #2
St. Martin's Paperbacks
September 2022
On Sale: August 23, 2022
288 pages
ISBN: 1250787726
EAN: 9781250787729
Kindle: B09NHLF4HS
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Book Lover

Lately, Molly has been feeling that she might have fallen into a fairy tale: she's reinvigorated the family bookshop Thomas Marlowe—Manuscripts and Folios, made friends in her new home of Cambridge, England, and is even developing a bit of a romance with the handsome Kieran—a bike shop owner with a somewhat intimidating family pedigree.

Having recently discovered The Strawberry Girls, a classic children's tale, Molly is thrilled to learn the author, Iona York, lives nearby. But while visiting the famous author at her lovely cottage in nearby Hazelhurst, an old acquaintance of Iona's tumbles off her roof to his death.

Then, when one of Iona’s daughters—an inspiration for the original Strawberry Girls—goes missing, Molly begins to worry this story might be more Brothers Grimm than happily-ever-after. Especially after Molly learns about the mysterious long-ago death of Iona’s husband and co-author of The Strawberry Girls…could past and present crimes be linked? Molly must put the clues together before someone turns this sweet tale sour.

Cambridge Bookshop

Chapter and Curse
CHAPTER AND CURSE
#1.0 β€’ October 2021
A Treacherous Tale
A TREACHEROUS TALE
#2.0 β€’ September 2022
The Fatal Folio
THE FATAL FOLIO
#3.0 β€’ November 2023
Madrigals and Mayhem
MADRIGALS AND MAYHEM
#4.0 β€’ December 2024
Vows and Villainy
VOWS AND VILLAINY
#5.0 β€’ December 2025