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The Midnight Library Murder
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some books were never meant to be found.
Maple Hollow's library renovation was supposed to uncover old foundations.
Instead, it uncovers an entire hidden world.
Buried beneath the library is a secret archive built by the town's founders-brick corridors lined with journals, family letters, land records, maps, and more than a century of carefully preserved secrets.
For Harper Sullivan, it is the historical discovery of a lifetime.
For someone else, it is a threat.
When state archivist Dr. Caroline Whitaker arrives to catalog the collection, she makes her position perfectly clear: history belongs to everyone, and every document should be revealed.
Even the journals sealed by Maple Hollow's founders with explicit instructions that they remain closed.
Harper isn't so sure.
Then Caroline is found dead inside the underground archive.
The library doors were unlocked.
The hidden archive shows no sign of forced entry.
One carefully protected journal is missing.
And someone who knew exactly how to reach it is still walking the streets of Maple Hollow.
As Harper follows a trail through altered catalog cards, coded indexes, family records, and generations of carefully guarded history, she discovers that the founders weren't simply hiding their mistakes.
They were trying to decide when the truth could be told without destroying the innocent people left behind.
Now Harper faces a question more difficult than identifying a killer:
Does preserving history mean revealing everything?
Or does protecting the truth sometimes mean knowing when to wait?
Meanwhile, Harper's own future refuses to stay buried beneath old books. Wedding invitations have gone out, Nell and Maggie are determined to get her through cake tastings and seating charts, and Luke is quietly reminding her that while she keeps looking backward, they have a life together waiting to be built.
But first Harper has to solve one more murder.
Because someone in Maple Hollow has decided there is at least one story worth killing to keep unread.
The Midnight Library Murder is the ninth Harper Sullivan Mystery, a cozy romantic mystery filled with hidden rooms, old books, family secrets, small-town warmth, wedding planning, historical puzzles, and a murder buried deep beneath the heart of Maple Hollow.
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