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Quiet Neighbours
Catriona McPherson's bookish mystery is set in a Wigtown bookstore. When former librarian Jude needs an escape from her life, she returns to the small village she visited the previous summer and becomes assistant to a kind bookshop owner. She moves into the gravedigger’s cottage and discovers the previous inhabitant’s marginalia, which might be connected to an old mystery that not everyone wants to solve.
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“Both cozy and creepy, which accounts for the quirky charm . . . the plot thickens nicely.” New York Times
“Intricately layered and psychologically taut.” The Strand
Jude’s husband left her.
Her parents died in a freak accident.
She buys a train ticket for the last place she remembers feeling happy.
It was a bookshop.
Lowland Glen Books is a rambling old store in the Scottish Highlands. She turns up in tears and the owner, Lowell, kindly offers her a job and a place to stay.
Things finally seem to be looking up. Now, another troubled young woman comes to town, claiming Lowell is her father.
Sometimes the place you run to is even more dangerous than where you came from.
Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Patricia MacDonald, T.M. Logan, B.A. Paris, Liane Moriarty, Claire Dyer, Celeste Ng and Shari Lapena.
Shortlisted for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Shortlisted for an Agatha Award for best contemporary novel.
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