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Every Story Begins Somewhere: A Maple Glen Murder Mystery (Maple Glen Mysteries Book 1)
Paperback
Series: The Maple Glen Mysteries, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some children's book illustrators redecorate. Emma Kate Hartwell finds a body.
When Emma moves back into her late grandmother's Victorian house in Maple Glen, she's looking forward to watercolors, her wildly opinionated cat Sammie, and quiet mornings at the local café. What she gets instead is a sealed envelope hidden inside the town's cornerstone, addressed to no one and dated decades before she was born.
Before she can even open it, the town's beloved historian is murdered - and Emma realizes the envelope was never meant to stay hidden.
Buried underneath seventy-eight years of small-town charm is the story of Clara Whitcomb, a nine-year-old girl who vanished in 1948, and a secret that half of Maple Glen has spent generations agreeing not to tell. With the town's sheriff reluctantly letting her tag along, and a sketchbook full of the kind of details only an illustrator would think to notice, Emma starts pulling at threads that were never meant to be pulled.
Every answer only proves what she already suspected: someone in Maple Glen has been keeping this secret long enough to kill for it.
Warm, wildly nosy, and impossible to put down, Every Story Begins Somewhere is a small-town mystery for readers who love their crime cozy, their romance slow, and their secrets seven decades deep.
Perfect for fans of gentle mysteries with real heart, amateur sleuths with a talent for noticing what everyone else missed, and towns you'll want to move to yourself.
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