Fatalities and Folios

Fatalities and Folios
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430305

Who knew that finding a rare book would also involve running for her life? When Poe Baxter fled her job as an English professor, she was thrilled to be launching into her career as an antiquarian book dealer with a trip to Edinburgh. But she soon finds that her queries into a particular book’s provenance are drawing some less desirable attention to her and her best friend Beattie. Not everyone is interested in sharing this particular story. Will the women be able to discover the book’s origins without bringing about their own ends?

Crossed By Death

Crossed By Death
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430135

Salvaging from historic buildings isn’t supposed to require reporting a murder. When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton crawls into an abandoned store with a house attached, she certainly isn’t expecting to find a body on site. But soon, her discovery sends Paisley on an expedition through history that links this murder to the one that led the previous owners to abandon the building in the first place. And someone doesn’t want her to salvage this story from the wreckage. Can Paisley preserve herself and her young son while also uncovering the stories that matter most?

Publishable By Death

Publishable By Death
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 173404912X

Change is hard in a small Southern town, especially when it brings a side of murder. All Harvey Beckett wants to do is help the residents of St. Marin's find the perfect book for that moment, snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem, and be ignored by her cat Aslan. But when the small, waterside town's newest resident discovers the body of the community's persnickety reporter in her bookshop storeroom just before her grand opening, Harvey can't help trying to solve the crime, even when it might cost her business and her life. The more questions Harvey asks, the more secrets she uncovers. Will Harvey and her friends be able to solve the murder of the town reporter without her becoming a victim herself?

Massacre and Margins

Massacre and Margins
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430321

She thought she was just going to reminisce, enjoy the Northern Lights, and celebrate an author, but a murderer had other ideas. On her first trip to Iceland, Poe Baxter is excited about the scenery, the culture and the rare book she’s hoping to find. But it soon becomes clear that Poe and her best friend Beattie are in for far more than a quiet, book-buying trip to the country. Will they survive their new bookish escapade? When a case of nostalgia hits, will it also mean the end of Poe’s memories?

Scripted To Slay

Scripted To Slay
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430046

Snow days aren't supposed to end with dead bodies. Harvey Beckett has just finished a quiet meal after shoveling the sidewalks around Main Street when the body of the new bartender in town is discovered behind the bar. When Harvey begins to look into the victim's pseudonym, she finds out far more than she bargained, enough to put her in real danger. Can she and her friends find the murderer before they become victims themselves?

Bound To Execute

Bound To Execute
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1734049162

The things Harvey Beckett doesn’t know about her neighbors could get her killed. In the perfect days of early May, bookshop owner Harvey Beckett is looking forward to evenings of walking Mayhem, reading before bed, and maybe even enjoying a snuggle with her favorite mechanic. But a meandering dog walk pushes pause on those plans when she and Mayhem stumble upon the body of the much-detested local bank manager. Harvey and her friends discover that there’s a lot going on behind the scenes in quiet St. Marin’s, a lot that people are hiding. Can Harvey help, or will her helping only end up creating more trouble for everyone around her?

The Poe Baxter Books Series Box Set - volume 1

The Poe Baxter Books Series Box Set - volume 1
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2023-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430666

When Poe Baxter decides to leave her job as an English professor and takes a position gathering rare folklore texts for her uncle, she doesn’t realize that she’ll be launched into a life-threatening world of danger, world travel, and even a bit of romance. Get the first three books in ACF Bookens’ new series now.

Epilogue Of An Epitaph

Epilogue Of An Epitaph
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430208

Everyone loves getting mail, but not when it’s clasped in someone’s cold, dead hands. Harvey Beckett had heard the tale of how the postmistress steams open people’s mail to feed her gossip-hungry customers, but when the postmistress is murdered, Harvey learns that the mail carrier might have been doing more than passing along juicy details. Soon, Harvey and her father find themselves embroiled in a hunt to find a killer, a quest that might stop her dad’s heart. Can they find the truth amongst the tall tales without becoming legends themselves?

Bobbins And Bodies

Bobbins And Bodies
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952430143

All she wanted from the old farmhouse was the gorgeous mantel, not a dead body. Paisley Sutton always expects the unexpected when she goes into a house to salvage the architectural prizes before it's torn down. She even knows she might encounter a rodent or two. But she really isn’t expecting to find a dead body, not again. And when it turns out the young man she found slumped in the house’s basement was killed, Paisley discovers that it’s not only the house that was abandoned. Will her research trigger the decades-old fears that someone hoped to bury in the rubble?

Aida Time

Aida Time
Author: ACF Bookens
Publisher: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 195243047X

What’s a woman to do if she finds a skeleton in her own back yard? Since she moved into her farmhouse, Paisley Sutton has wanted to convert the old summer kitchen house into an office for herself, and it’s finally time. But when her contractor begins opening up the walls to insulate, they find far more than they expected. Will Paisley be able to solve this time-worn murder, or will someone stop her before she can?