
New York Times bestselling author Paige Shelton returns with the next installment of The Scottish Bookshop Mystery series, The Stolen Letter
Delaney Nichols is confident sheβs doing what she lovesβcase in point, just one day after returning from her fabulous European honeymoon, sheβs eager to get back to the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. But as she disembarks her bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying to the ground.
Delaneyβs hapless victimβs name is Mary, and the two women canβt help but notice that they bear an uncanny resemblance to one another. According to Mary, they both also look like the long-beheaded Mary Queen of Scots. Even stranger, Mary believes she is the reincarnation of the Scottish queen. But peculiar as Delaneyβs doppelganger is, she doesnβt have time to dwell on it: on her arrival to the bookshop, she learns the Edinburgh city council wants to close the Cracked Spine, citing code violations, and sheβs determined to stop them.
But when Maryβs husband dies in a car explosionβand Delaney learns he was the very member of city council who proposed that the city take a closer look at the bookshopβs constructionβshe starts to wonder if her meeting with Mary wasnβt an accident. Edinburgh has become as filled with intrigue and deception as any European court, and Delaney is determined to get to the bottom of this royal mystery.
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 Scottish Bookshop THE CRACKED SPINE
#1.0
β’ April 2016
 OF BOOKS AND BAGPIPES
#2.0
β’ April 2017
 LOST BOOKS AND OLD BONES
#3.0
β’ April 2018
 THE LOCH NESS PAPERS
#4.0
β’ April 2019
 THE STOLEN LETTER
#5.0
β’ April 2020
 DEADLY EDITIONS
#6.0
β’ April 2021
 THE BURNING PAGES
#7.0
β’ April 2022
 FATEFUL WORDS
#8.0
β’ April 2023
 WRITTEN IN STONE
#9.0
β’ April 2025
 WRITTEN IN STONE
#10.0
β’ January 2026
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