Title: The Fatal Folio (Cambridge Bookshop #3)
Author: Elizabeth Penney
Molly Kimball, while busy helping her family run their bookshop and cataloguing an enormous library belonging to her boyfriend's family, finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving an old manuscript. The Fatal Folio, both the name of this cozy mystery and the Gothic novel that exists within the book, becomes the basis for this story.
On Guy Fawkes Night, Molly, Kieran, and their friends find a body. However, the man who was murdered had previously been arguing with Kieran's cousin who becomes the prime suspect. Later, the original manuscript of The Fatal Folio goes missing. She knows the two are intertwined, but she isn't sure how. Will she be able to find the manuscript and solve the murder before the killer finds her?
This is the third book in the Cambridge Bookshop series. However, the author writes in such a way that you can jump into the series without reading the first two books and still know what's going on. Ms. Penney does a wonderful job of weaving a Gothic mystery story into her writing. This was a hard book to put down!
Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an advanced copy of this book.
