To the Tome of Murder

<b>Three weeks before Thanksgiving bookshop owner Addie Greyborne already has a full plate--and a killer on her case...</b> <p/>Addie's determined to turn a seemingly ordinary November in coastal Greyborne Harbor into one for the books. The windows of her shop display carefully curated works by American writers including a rare selection of traditional holiday recipes from the influential 19th-century publication <i>Godey's Ladies Magazine.</i> And then there's the town's Civil War-era themed cooking and baking competition with a hefty cash prize and free publicity going to the winning dish... <p/>But when she finds her cousin's boyfriend murdered a stunned Addie reluctantly realizes she may be the only person who can blow the cover off a grisly crime. With so many unanswered questions surrounding the victim's death Addie must figure out the strange connection between a mysterious vintage briefcase the disappearance of a first edition copy of Sarah Josepha Hale's famous nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb and a dangerously well-read culprit...<br><b> </b><br>