A coastal cozy mystery series set in a foggy New England town where every old book in the bookshop is keeping someone’s secret.
The Books
An Uncut Pages Bookshop Mystery
When Sophie Merrick inherits her late aunt's bookshop, she expects grief, paperwork, and a failing storefront. Instead, a body in the rare-books room and a town full of literary secrets force her to clear her name — and finish what Iris began.
Start here when the series launches.
An Uncut Pages Bookshop Mystery
Four months after the summer that changed Saltmarsh Harbor, a biographer checks into the Whitlock Inn to write the definitive life of Edmund Blackwell. A week later she is dead in the front parlor, and the coroner blames the fireplace. Sophie Merrick has read enough manuscripts to know when a story has been tidied.
Reading Order
Start with the free prequel novella. Each book stands alone — read in publication order to follow the deeper Saltmarsh thread.
Start here
A 10,000-word coastal prelude. Meet Iris and Marnie, step into Uncut Pages, and catch the first whisper of a secret the harbor would rather keep.
An inherited bookshop, a body in the rare-books room, and a town that keeps its loyalties closer than its keys.
A biographer arrives to write the definitive life of Edmund Blackwell — and is found dead in the parlor of the Whitlock Inn a week later.
The third Uncut Pages Bookshop Mystery.
The fourth Uncut Pages Bookshop Mystery.
The fifth Uncut Pages Bookshop Mystery.
The World
Marsh wind, lamp halos, old margins, and the quiet hours when a small town does its remembering.
The Town
A fog-laced New England harbor town built on old loyalties and longer silences. Lamplit storefronts, marsh wind off the water, and streets that remember the kind of trouble a coastal town would rather leave unnamed.
The Bookshop
A narrow inherited bookshop of salt-warped floors, shadowed shelves, and marked-up volumes. In the back room, the marginalia tells part of the story, while the locked drawer keeps what was never meant to be shelved.
The Protagonist
A quiet, exacting woman with an editor’s eye for what is missing, altered, or out of place. She notices the detail no one explains, the pause that lands too late, and the things people leave carefully unsaid.
The Series
Each book stands as a complete mystery set in Saltmarsh Harbor, with its own case and resolution. But beneath the bookshop calm and coastal hush, a larger thread moves quietly through the series, gathering weight as it goes.
Get the free prequel novella, meet Iris and Marnie at Uncut Pages, and be first to hear when Book 1 opens its doors.
