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The Book: The Poisoned Petal Express
Librarian Charlotte Wren runs her life on lists and schedules, and order is exactly how she likes it. So when she inherits a mystery bookstore from a great-aunt she barely knew, she does the sensible thing: packs one impeccable suitcase and boards the Poisoned Petal Express to go claim it. Then she rescues a shivering golden retriever named Bessie from the platform, and every careful plan she's ever made collapses in about four minutes.
When ruthless influencer Dylan Rhinehart turns up dead in his compartment mid-blizzard, the elegant train becomes a locked room on rails—nowhere to run, no one coming, and a killer settling in for the ride. Charlotte teams up with charming travel writer Theo Parker and rookie Deputy Mindy Collier to sort the secrets from the snow, with Bessie supervising the investigation's morale department.
The suspect list is a delight: a flamboyant magician Rhinehart humiliated, an ice-queen socialite shielding her husband's past, and a quiet chef guarding a family secret Rhinehart was about to expose. As the snowdrifts climb and the suspects get desperate, Charlotte has to unmask the killer before they realize she's seen too much. Everyone on this train is hiding something—but only one secret is worth killing for.
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“A locked-room mystery on a snowbound train, an over-planner heroine, and a golden retriever named Bessie running the show—all in one book. Consider this your blizzard-in-June recommendation”
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