A messenger dressed all in black, his ensemble topped off with a “pillbox-like cap,” delivers a message to Delaney Nichols at the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. Ms. Delaney Nichols, Your presence is requested this afternoon at 2:00 at Deacon Brodie’s Tavern to discuss Ms. Shelagh O’Conner’s vast collection of rare and…
Kings and queens being hanged, beheaded, and poisoned. It seems Scotland has seen more than its fair share of suspicious regicides. Before I started writing The Stolen Letter, I didn’t know much about Mary, Queen of Scots, but I’ve always held a fascination for the martyred queen. Over the years, of course, I’d picked up…
Lost Books and Old Bones by Paige Shelton is the third book in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols. Welcome to Edinburgh, the setting for Paige Shelton’s delightful Scottish Bookshop Mystery series. Our heroine, Delaney Nichols, has traveled halfway around the world from Kansas in order…
Lost Books and Old Bones by Paige Shelton is the third book in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series, featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols and set in Edinburgh, Scotland. Take a visual tour of Lost Books and Old Bones with GIFnotes! Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed spring with great March cozies; this month, April showers bring awesome reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this shopping…
A humble bookshop finds itself in the midst of a murder plot in The Cracked Spine—the first novel of bestselling author Paige Shelton’s Scottish Bookshop Mystery series. In anticipation of the third book in Paige Shelton's Scottish Bookshop Mystery series, Lost Books and Old Bones, get a digital copy of the book that started it…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. Lost Books and Old Bones by Paige Shelton is the third book in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols—take a visual tour with GIFnotes!
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This was a great week for readers looking to get away! Steve Berry released the 12th installment of his Cotton Malone series,…
Of Books and Bagpipes by Paige Shelton is the 2nd book in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series. Last year, nationally bestselling author Paige Shelton debuted a new mystery series set in Scotland featuring Kansas-born Delaney Nichols. A recent transplant to the area, Delaney found employment at The Cracked Spine—a modest-yet-magical bookstore specializing in rare manuscripts and…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed in spring (or we thought we would … ahem, snow storm) with March's releases; this month, we're hoping for warmer weather with April releases! Let us know in the comments how you like…
