Samantha Washington has long dreamed of owning a mystery bookstore, and as she prepares for the grand opening, she's realizing another dream - penning a cozy mystery set in England, between the wars. While Samantha hires employees and stocks her shelves, her imagination also gets to work as her heroine, Lady Penelope Marsh, refuses to lose the besotted Victor Carlston to her sibling's charms, even as one of her sister's suitors turns up dead in a maze. Then the unimaginable happens in real life: a shady realtor turns up dead in Samantha's backyard, and the police suspect her - after all, she might know a thing or two about murder. Aided by her feisty grandmother and an ensemble of enthusiastic retirees, Samantha is determined to close the case before she opens up her store, but will she live to conclude her own story when the killer has a revised ending in mind?
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