Quiet Conspiracy

A village that's been lying for thirty years. And a retired editor who can't stop reading.Sheldon Pennyworth just wanted to keep a promise to his late wife: buy the old bookshop in Quillhaven, Rhode Island, and give it the life she always imagined for it. He wasn't looking for trouble.Trouble finds him anyway - hidden behind a shelf of paperback mysteries, inside a scandalous first edition that named half the village without quite naming them. Old receipts. A warning in someone else's hand. A threat telling him to stop reading before the author stops breathing.He doesn't stop reading. By the time the author turns up dead in his own cottage, Sheldon has learned what everyone in Quillhaven has spent thirty years pretending not to know - that the village's charm was bought with somebody's silence.Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club and Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries - small-town charm with real teeth, where the tea is warm and the secrets are considerably colder.