Ellie Harper: Lessons and Lies

By Paul McGowan

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"Smart women, small-town secrets, and a cat who steals every scene. Lessons and Lies is the kind of mystery you finish and immediately want to read again."

Ellie Harper spent thirty years teaching literature. Now she runs a bookshop in Concord, Massachusetts, shares her apartment with an imperious black cat named Agatha, and hosts a mystery book club with three friends who spend as much time solving fictional crimes as they do sharing the latest town gossip.

Every week, the Gumshoe Gang gathers in the reading nook of The Bookseller's Nook to crack open a classic whodunit and argue over suspects, motives, and red herrings. It's the highlight of Ellie's quiet new life - until a real murder turns their Monday night hobby into something far more dangerous.

The police think they have it figured out. Ellie knows better.

With a lifetime of reading Agatha Christie, instincts sharpened by decades in university lecture halls, and three friends who between them know every secret in town, Ellie starts asking the questions no one wants answered. What she uncovers will surprise everyone - especially the person who thought they got away with it.

Part Murder, She Wrote, part The Thursday Murder Club, Lessons and Lies is for everyone who believes the smartest person in the room might just be the retired professor with a cat on her lap and a very good memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMRG7B8X
• ISBN13: 9798298545259
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"