The Case Of The Broken Quill

<p>When literary legend Octavia Glyn is found dead in her St Merryn's Cove cottage it seems her final edit may have been fatal. Her long-awaited memoir promised to reveal decades of scandal from Cornwall's creative elite-but someone ensured the last chapter stayed unwritten.</p><p>For local bookseller-turned-sleuth Demelza Pascoe curiosity proves impossible to resist. A missing manuscript a red-inked threat and a trail of bruised egos lead her deep into the tangled lives of poets painters and ghosts of a writers' retreat long past.</p><p>As secrets resurface and reputations crumble Demelza and her irrepressible assistant Jess must separate art from artifice before the truth is lost to history-and before another pen turns deadly.</p><p>Witty atmospheric and irresistibly Cornish <em>The Case of the Broken Quill</em> (or your chosen title) proves that in St Merryn's Cove the deadliest stories are the ones people still want to tell.</p>