Bookmarked for Murder: A Cozy Bookshop Mystery with a Digital Twist

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Ellie Page never expected to become a detective. She’s perfectly content running The Final Chapter, her beloved bookshop in the charming town of Quill’s End, Vermont. Between her baker friend Maggie supplying pastries, her grumpy grey cat Bodoni supervising the counter, and her custom-built AI assistant Huxley cataloguing rare books, life is exactly how Ellie likes it — quiet, cozy, and filled with stories.

Everything changes when retired librarian Edmund Croft arrives carrying a priceless treasure: a first edition of The Silent Garden, the legendary 1932 novel by Cordelia Wren, inscribed with a cryptic dedication to someone known only as “D.” Eddie is terrified. Someone has broken into his house searching for the book, and he believes its secrets are dangerous.

Hours later, Eddie is dead. The book has vanished. And Ellie is pulled into a mystery buried for nearly ninety years.

With Huxley helping her decode hidden clues, trace forgotten records, and connect scattered pieces of evidence, Ellie uncovers the story of Cordelia Wren’s forbidden romance with the daughter of one of Vermont’s most powerful families — a love affair silenced through threats, stolen manuscripts, and a cover-up that never truly ended.

As Ellie follows the trail from an overgrown walled garden to an abandoned print shop and a shuttered asylum, she realizes someone is still willing to kill to keep the past hidden.

With a mysterious silver-haired stranger watching her, a Boston lawyer determined to bury the truth, and a detective who can’t officially help, Ellie must solve both a modern murder and a decades-old betrayal before the final chapter is written for her.

Bookmarked for Murder is a warm, clever cozy mystery perfect for fans of bookshops, small towns, hidden secrets, and amateur sleuths with a modern twist.