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Much Ado About Murder
All’s fair in love and murder.
The Shakespeare Festival has come to the village, and all of Argleton has gone bard-crazy. Mina’s excited about Nevermore being the festival’s official bookstore, but a rival bookshop opens up across the green and completely cramps her style.
When the bookshop’s owner is found clobbered to death by his own First Folio, Mina and Quoth are determined to stick their nose (and beak) in to solve the case. But with a real Shakespearean fairy running around the village and Morrie determined to curse the performance, Mina and her men already have their hands full.
With help from a troublesome Puck – and absolutely no help from Mina’s mother’s latest scheme – will they solve the crime and save the festival, or is it the final curtain call for Nevermore Bookshop?
The Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries are what you get when all your book boyfriends come to life. Join a brooding antihero, a master criminal, a cheeky raven, and a heroine with a big heart (and an even bigger book collection) in this fun and steamy reverse harem paranormal mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Steffanie Holmes.
Much Ado About Murder
Much Ado About Murder
Cozy Pairings
Speakeasy is a rich and layered fragrance that opens with warm spice and soft smoke, blending cardamom, incense, and pimento berry. At its heart, notes of saffron, plum blossom, and tobacco leaves create a deep and slightly sweet warmth, while hints of licorice add a subtle intrigue. The scent settles into a smooth, lingering base of palo santo, patchouli, vanilla, and dark chocolate, bringing a soft sweetness to its darker edges. Complex and atmospheric, this fragrance feels warm, enveloping, and quietly captivating.
Why we chose this: A cursed bookshop is bringing fictional villains to life, Heathcliff is grumpy and tattooed and six feet four, Moriarty is sophisticated and evasive, and somehow Mina is both the prime suspect in a murder and the only one who can solve it. From banned book clubs turning murderous to Shakespeare festivals gone deadly to a writers' retreat where someone ends up killed by their own pen, the mysteries never stop coming and neither does the chemistry. Speakeasy is the candle for every book in this series, rich with smoky cardamom and dark chocolate and the deep warmth of palo santo and vanilla, a scent as layered and atmospheric as Nevermore itself. Light this candle and let the complex, slightly forbidden warmth fill the room like a bookshop where the stories have decided they are no longer content to stay on the shelves.