When a haunted book starts correcting the record, Nell Harrow knows someone has been lying for a very long time.
At Bellwether House, old books rarely stay quiet. When a returned poetry volume reveals strange marginal notes tied to the Wenshall Literary Institute, Nell follows the trail into a world of donor registers, hidden papers, polished committees, and a death in a locked reading room.
Dr. Livia Marwood was asking the wrong questions about a disputed literary collection. Now she is dead, and the book in Nell's care seems determined to expose the truth one penciled correction at a time.
Elegant, atmospheric, and gently ghostly, The Phantom in the Margins is a bookish paranormal cozy mystery for readers who love haunted houses, old libraries, English village secrets, and murder hidden inside respectable institutions.