The Catalogue of Missing Names

Some names were never meant to survive the catalogue.When Blackthorn Books receives two versions of the same auction catalogue on the same morning, Clara Whitmore notices what others would miss: several names have quietly disappeared between printings. A woman erased from a book inscription. A lecture suddenly made anonymous. A bundle of letters reduced to later copies of uncertain interest. Then the cataloguer responsible for the first version is found dead before he can explain why the changes were made.As Clara traces the vanished names back through Alderwick Lodge, forgotten reading societies, and a century of carefully managed family history, she uncovers a hidden network of women whose books, letters, and work were absorbed into the Harcourt estate and buried beneath respectability. But someone in Bellthorpe is still determined to keep those names erased, and the closer Clara gets to the truth behind Lot 169, the more dangerous the catalogue becomes.