British cozy mysteries from a Bloomsbury bookshop, where the cat has opinions and the late owner refuses to leave.
Get the free book Get in touchImogen Penrose lives in Bloomsbury with a tabby cat called Boswell and a great many books. She writes the Bloomsbury Bookshop Mysteries, which follow Cleo Marchmont, an amateur sleuth who inherits her great-aunt's bookshop and discovers it comes with rather more than first editions.
She is at her happiest in second-hand bookshops, at her most reliable on her morning walk through Bedford Square, and at her least useful before the second cup of tea.
A week in a Sussex village. A cottage to clear, a great-aunt to lay to rest, and a letter on the kitchen table that names three people owed an explanation. Cleo Marchmont thinks she has come to say goodbye. She has come to start something instead.
The First Edition is the free prequel to the Bloomsbury Bookshop Mysteries. Download it in any format and meet Cleo before the first body turns up.
Read it free on BookFunnelCleo Marchmont has come home to Bloomsbury to take over her great-aunt's struggling bookshop. The shop comes with three complications: a tabby cat with opinions, the ghost of her great-aunt who refuses to leave the premises, and a body in the Russian literature section. With her aunt as a spectral consultant and a cat who recognises liars on sight, Cleo has to solve a murder before the killer decides she has read too much already.
For fans of Lucy Connelly, Verity Bright, and Jackie Baldwin.
Cleo Marchmont has six weeks to save a bookshop she never asked for. Then a body turns up in the Russian literature section, the police settle on the wrong suspect, and the only witness is a great-aunt who has been dead a fortnight and shows no sign of leaving.
The first Bloomsbury Bookshop Mystery. Out on Kindle and in paperback on 1 August 2026.
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