Secrets in the Stacks

A Cipher, A Hidden Strongbox, A Murder, and a Blonde Labrador Retriever Retired archivist Stella Gamble thought cataloging an elderly dead man's book collection would be the most excitement Merced Falls had to offer. Then Dixie found the body.When a leather-bound volume in cipher turns up in a donated estate lot - and the man who wanted it turns up dead at the bottom of the Carnegie Library stairs - Stella's thirty years of archival instincts kick in. Someone in this small California river town has been hunting a century-old secret. And whoever it is knows she's getting close.With a coded inscription to decode, a basement strongbox to find, and her best friend dangerously close to becoming the prime suspect, Stella has more than professional pride on the line. In Merced Falls, proximity to a mystery is never neutral - especially when you're the new woman in town.Good thing she brought the dog.Secrets In The Stacks is the second book in the Stella Gamble Cozy Mystery series - a standalone cozy with small-town charm, a slow-burn romance, and one very perceptive Labrador.