the agatha mysteries

In Brambleford, the cats know all the secrets.

When Violet Pennington inherits her aunt’s bookshop in the picturesque village of Brambleford, she expects dusty shelves and quiet afternoons, not a murder during book club and a cat who seems to know all the answers.

Sebastian Blackwood, celebrated mystery novelist, collapses mid-meeting, apparently...

She hid the invitation for a reason.

Agatha, a tuxedo cat with a talent for sorting mail, an instinct for character, and very firm opinions about what should and should not be delivered, chose not to pass the invitation from Brambleford Manor along.

When her owner, Violet Pennington, finally discovers it and accepts the invitation, she expects...

The truth was written down—and then removed.

A missing manuscript.
A room full of suspects.
A secret someone buried over a century ago.
When a rare journal disappears from Violet Pennington’s bookshop in the middle of a private viewing, suspicion falls on the six guests in the room.
But Violet quickly realizes the truth is far more unsettling:
The...

The hidden compartment in Violet Pennington’s bookshop has already given up one secret. She didn’t expect it to have kept another.

A note, dated 1840, written in a precise copperplate hand. A witness who could not be silenced and could not be heard. A man drowned in a millpond, and a verdict returned by the inquest was wrong.
In Brambleford, the...