When book club discussions turn deadly, Sam Prescott must solve a mystery that's definitely not on the reading list.

Sam Prescott thought joining the Twice-Told Tales book club would be a perfect way to make new friends in Sunset Ridge. What she didn't expect was to find the club's most outspoken member dead in the bookstore's back room after a particularly heated literary debate.

Dr. Margaret Thornfield had a gift for making enemies with her sharp critiques and literary snobbery. She'd recently savaged a local author's work, dismissed fellow members' favorite books, and was demanding the club only select titles she personally approved. When her sudden death looks suspicious to Sam's organized mind, she can't resist investigating.

Between hosting book discussions at her historic home and helping Charlotte revitalize the struggling bookstore, Sam discovers everyone in the club had reason to want the professor silenced permanently. As secrets emerge from between the pages, Sam must determine which member turned their final discussion into Dr. Thornfield's last chapter.

With Aiden's steady support, Arlo's bookstore adventures, and her Sunset Ridge community rallying around her, Sam races to solve the mystery before the killer authors someone else's ending.