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The Story Wren Never Told
Paperback
Series: The Lantern & Quill Bookshop Mysteries., Book 10
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Wren Vale left Charlie a bookshop full of other people's secrets. She saved her own for last.
The new Bramblewick Community Archive is finally ready to open when a law firm delivers a sealed manuscript addressed to Charlie. Aunt Wren's instructions are exact: the pages may be opened only when no single person controls the archive-and only with the family of Peter Doran present.
More than thirty years ago, Peter was a young assistant at The Lantern & Quill when a visiting book dealer died beneath the shop's delivery van. Peter pleaded guilty. Charlie's mother left Bramblewick. Wren and Rebecca Vale never spoke again. Now retired judge Malcolm Pierce-the prosecutor who secured that plea-announces that he intends to correct the record. Before he can speak, he is found dead below the old paper-mill footbridge, his confession missing.
To solve Malcolm's murder, Charlie must read her aunt without defending her, face the mother she barely remembers without turning her into a symbol, and reckon with a secret that reaches back into her own childhood. The final truth will clear one name and stain others-and force Charlie to answer the question Wren never could: when love has done harm, who gets to decide what repair looks like?
The Lantern & Quill Mysteries, Book Ten-the series finale. A cozy about memory, family, and the cost of the truth. Best read after Book One, but written to stand on its own.
Perfect for fans of Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile Mysteries, Jenn McKinlay's Library Lover's Mysteries, and Ellery Adams's Book Retreat Mysteries.
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