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Also by T.C. LoTempio:

Murder on the Books, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
A Side Dish of Death, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
A Purr Before Dying, March 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Time for Murder is Meow, August 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Death by a Whisker, February 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Death by a Whisker, February 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Purr M For Murder, March 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Crime and Catnip, December 2016
Mass Market Paperback
Claws For Alarm, November 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Meow If It's Murder, December 2014
Paperback / e-Book

Murder on the Books
T.C. LoTempio

Cozy Bookshop mystery
Severn House
July 2025
On Sale: July 1, 2025
Featuring: Steve Sheppard; C.J. Barrett; Charlotte James
240 pages
ISBN: 1448315263
EAN: 9781448315260
Kindle: B0DTYF8XYF
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Cozy

Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find herself amidst a real-life murder mystery in this first book in the brand new Cozy Bookshop mystery series by award-winning and national bestselling author T.C. LoTempio.

“I was hooked from start to finish!” Laura Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop mysteries, on Eat, Drink and Drop Dead

Thirty-year-old Charlotte James, better known to her mystery fans as C.J. Barrett, decides to take a break from writing her popular Steve Sheppard mystery series. Leaving New York City, she moves back to her hometown of Austin to wind down, recuperate, and maybe come up with some new ideas for her books.

Settling into her new life, Charley reunites with her long-term friend and baker Zane who is about to open a charming double store front. But while Zane is ready to open her café, her business partner Sheila unexpectedly departs town, bailing on her bookshop and leaving nothing but a note behind.

Charley is more than happy to take over, but when she finds Sheila’s body in a chest in the store’s basement, things take a dramatic turn. Now Charley has to juggle the opening of her bookshop, a stoic but attractive Philadelphia detective, and a stray cat, all while solving Sheila’s murder Sheppard-style before the killer can strike again!

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