The Bookshop of Buried Secrets: A Hallowmere Mystery

By Iris Holloway

Some secrets are buried for a reason. Some people will kill to keep them that way.
When Wynter Ashcombe inherits her late grandmother's bookshop in the fog-wrapped village of Hallowmere, she's hoping for a quiet reset - dusty shelves, familiar stories, a slower life far from the mistakes she left behind.
What she finds instead is a diary hidden beneath a loose floorboard, and a single name written inside it that the whole village has spent forty years pretending to forget.
Elowen Thistlewood vanished the night before her wedding. No body. No answers. Just a "runaway bride" story that everyone in Hallowmere agreed, without ever quite saying so, to stop questioning.
Wynter can't stop questioning it.
The more she digs, the colder her welcome grows. Old friends change the subject. An unsigned note warns her to leave the past alone. The postmistress everyone adores can't quite meet her eyes. And the village's most beloved son has a smile that doesn't always reach quite far enough.
Then a body is found - and Hallowmere's forty-year-old "tragedy" starts to look a lot more like an unsolved murder.
With a carpenter who has secrets of his own quietly becoming more than an ally, and a killer determined to keep the truth in the ground, Wynter has to decide how far she's willing to go for a woman she never knew - before the past claims one more victim.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG894P76
• ISBN13: 9798194403677
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"