Crooked Lane Books, Belletristik, To Kill a Mocking Girl: A Bookbinding Mystery (Englisch, Harper Kincaid, 2020)

The first cozy mystery in a series full of Southern charm&mdash starring bookish sleuth Quinn Caine and her quirky sidekicks: a lock-picking nun and her dog, Ruff Barker Ginsburg. In small-town Virginia, bookbinder Quinn finds herself in a major bind when she&rsquo s blamed for the murder of her ex&rsquo s fiancé e . . . Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned, charm-for-days bookshop, Prose & Scones. With her trusty German Shephard, RBG&mdash &lsquo Ruff Barker&rsquo Ginsburg&mdash by her side, what can go wrong? Okay, sure, bumping into her ex, Scott, or her former high school nemesis, Tricia, is a drag. It certainly doesn&rsquo t help that they have acquired the new hobby of shoving their recent engagement in her face every chance they get. But that doesn&rsquo t mean Quinn wanted to find Tricia dead in the road. So why does half the town think she may have done it? Quinn is determined to find Tricia&rsquo s killer, even if it means partnering with her cousin-turned-nun, Sister Daria, and Detective Aiden Harrington, her older brother&rsquo s &lsquo too-movie-star-handsome-for-his-own good&rsquo best friend. They believe she&rsquo s innocent, but of course that doesn't influence the police, who peg her as their prime suspect. Or, at least until she&rsquo s poisoned. But there is no way Quinn is going to stop now. Vienna is her town and&mdash for better or worse&mdash Tricia was one of their own. Someone may have killed the mocking girl, but no one&rsquo s going to stop the notorious QVC.