Written in Stone

Written in Stone

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Genres: Mystery
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The tenth installment in the cozy mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols, set in a specialty bookshop in Edinburgh called The Cracked Spine

When Delaney wins a special Hidden Door Festival invitation to artist Ryory Bennigan's studio, she isn’t sure quite what to expect. What she finds is an elusive fellow obsessed with the Picts—complete with his own versions of their blue tattoos and vibrant red hair—recreating the stones they left behind. She also meets a visiting paleontologist, Dr. Adam Pace, from the University of Kansas attempting to sell an artifact that might just explain what the Picts' language really sounded like.

Or at least that’s what he claimed the artifact was for. Before the deal can close and Ryory can get a closer look at it, Dr. Pace is found dead.

With the police dragging their feet in the investigation, Delaney takes it upon herself to dig into Dr. Pace's past. Her research goes murky as she quickly discovers Pace’s shady background—selling fake dinosaur bones and running into some 3D-printing trouble back in Kansas. Could his past have come back to bite him in Edinburgh? And what does his questionable background mean for the mysterious Pictish artifact he was trying to sell to Ryory? Delaney will have to dust off her magnifying glass to uncover the truth behind this case… or risk becoming a pile of bones herself.

Release date: April 1, 2025

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Print pages: 304

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Delaney and her husband Tom receive an exclusive invitation to meet with reclusive artist Byory Bennigan at the Hidden Door Festival. They follow the secret directions to the artist's studio and meet a man coming from meeting Byory. This man is Dr. Adam Pace who just happens to be from the Univ. of Kansas, which is Delaney's alma mater. Meeting Byory and his assistant, Ani, is an experience not to be forgotten. The next day Delaney receives news that Dr. Pace has been found dead at the house he was renting, and it is not reported if it was accident or murder, but right away De...
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Delaney and her husband Tom receive an exclusive invitation to meet with reclusive artist Byory Bennigan at the Hidden Door Festival. They follow the secret directions to the artist's studio and meet a man coming from meeting Byory. This man is Dr. Adam Pace who just happens to be from the Univ. of Kansas, which is Delaney's alma mater. Meeting Byory and his assistant, Ani, is an experience not to be forgotten. The next day Delaney receives news that Dr. Pace has been found dead at the house he was renting, and it is not reported if it was accident or murder, but right away Delaney's mind is turning. When Det. Winters asks Delaney to contact her friend back at the Univ. for any information on why Dr. Pace was in Scotland, she's all in. What she learns is disturbing and leads to more questions than answers. And it also leads Delaney, Tom and her friends from the bookshop to dig around until they can find the answers to what happened, especially when it is revealed that Dr. Pace was poisoned.
(Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy)
 on 3/30/25
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