A rare book. A dead appraiser. And an inventory that doesn’t add up.

Tessa Quinn has spent years building Quinn’s Corner Books into one of Connecticut’s most trusted rare-book shops. Her systems are meticulous, her inventory impeccable, her reputation spotless.

Then Gerald Finch dies during a rare-book appraisal event in her shop, and a first edition of Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game vanishes from the locked office where his body is found.

As Tessa digs into her own records, she discovers something worse than theft: a pattern of forgeries threaded through her restricted inventory, genuine editions quietly replaced with expert copies, her own handwriting forged on checkout authorizations. Someone has been exploiting the systems she built, and they know her shop as well as she does.

With a skeptical detective watching her every move, a rival bookseller circling, and a town full of suspects, Tessa must use her bookseller’s eye for detail to unravel a scheme that goes far deeper than one stolen book, before the killer decides her attention to detail has become a liability.

Booked for Trouble is the first novel in the Quinn’s Corner Mystery series, a cozy mystery for book lovers who believe that the devil is in the details and the truth is on the shelves.