In a Vermont town built around books, some stories are more dangerous left on the shelf.
Ellie Bell came home to Bellflower to settle her late aunt's bookshop. She stayed to find out what the town's quietest secrets were hiding.
Welcome to Bellflower, Vermont
Welcome to Bellflower, Vermont, where books are part of everyday life—and old stories have a way of becoming dangerous.
After returning to the lakeside town she once left behind, former Boston editor Ellie Bell takes over her late aunt Nora's beloved independent bookshop. Between new releases, community events, eccentric regulars, and the private records Nora left upstairs, Ellie discovers that a small town can hold more secrets than any archive.
When trouble reaches Bellflower, Ellie notices the details other people overlook: a contradiction in a story, a forgotten ledger, a book that is not where it should be, a piece of local history that no longer adds up. Detective Jack Mercer follows evidence and procedure; Ellie follows the quiet connections between books, people, and the past.
Each Bellflower Bookshop Mystery delivers a complete whodunit set in the atmospheric world of New England, with an independent bookstore at its heart, a close-knit community, hidden histories, and relationships that deepen from book to book.
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A small-town cozy mystery series, meant to be read in order.
John Deda
John Deda writes character-driven fiction built around secrets, pressure, and the hidden forces that reshape ordinary lives. He is the author of The Bellflower Bookshop Mysteries, beginning with Murder at the Bellflower Bookshop, set in a lakeside Vermont town where books, community, and carefully kept secrets collide.
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