Foreword Fraud — S.E. Babin

Welcome back to Silverwood Hollow! Where the books are plentiful and the crime is cozy!When a shady business owner winds up dead, I'm once again under the investigative spotlight of a handsome detective with nowhere to run...After sitting in on a lecture given by a rare book trader, I'm excited to look into expanding Tattered Pages. But when the trader winds up dead the same day Cole and I attend her lecture, suspicion turns to those I care about the most.Of course, I'm too busy running a store and caring for my grumpy Persian cat to murder anyone, but no one believes me and now I have to put on my investigative hat and find out whodunnit.Turns out the business owner had dealings with the town's handsome and very eligible news reporter, Cole. And Cole isn't too happy about her leaving him in the lurch after promising him a scoop for the ages.But Cole couldn't possibly be guilty.Right?