Lattes and Libraries: A Wren Alder Mystery

By Rod Baxter

A quiet harbor town. A death everyone believed was an accident.
When librarian Wren Alder notices a small inconsistency in the town archives, she uncovers a mystery someone buried fourteen years ago.

Wren Alder does not believe in coincidences.

She believes in metadata, timestamp integrity, and systems that function as designed.

As the digital archivist for a historic coastal library in the Pacific Northwest, Wren preserves the past with quiet precision. Her routines are deliberate-her research exacting, her latte measured to the degree.

But when a recently donated archive reveals discrepancies tied to a fourteen-year-old drowning once ruled accidental, Wren uncovers something far more unsettling than a clerical error.

A photograph that doesn't match its date.

A police case number that no longer exists.

Weather records that contradict the official timeline.

Detective Callan Hayes agrees to reopen the case, but revisiting the past threatens reputations, relationships, and long-standing civic decisions. As Wren reconstructs digital trails and council records, she begins to see how the truth was quietly rearranged.

And restoring the record may carry consequences no one intended to face.

Lattes and Libraries is an atmospheric mystery blending intellectual intrigue with moral complexity-ideal for readers who enjoy thoughtful investigations, layered characters, and suspense driven by discovery rather than spectacle.

In Grayhaven, the fog hides more than the shoreline.

And some stories were never meant to be corrected.

The first mystery in the Wren Alder series.

Continue the Wren Alder Mystery Series
Book Two - Ashes in the Archive
Book Three - Echoes in the Harbor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS5LL6TN
• ISBN13: 9798250523745
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"