Murder at the Broadside Festival: A Book Festival Cozy Mystery with Rare Papers, Blackmail, and Murder

About Murder at the Broadside Festival: A Book Festival Cozy Mystery with Rare Papers, Blackmail, and Murder

A spring festival. A dead podcaster. A forged confession that could rewrite a town’s history.

Bramble Cross is buzzing with visitors for the annual Broadside Festival, where rare books, antique presses, and literary gossip bring crowds to the square—and a welcome rush of business to Proof & Pastry. But the celebration turns deadly when celebrity true-crime podcaster Rafe Corrigan is found dead beside an antique printing press after teasing a live “town corruption” reveal. Delia Hart is pulled into the case immediately.

Rafe had paid for private access to pamphlets and broadsides in a local collection Delia helped catalog, and someone clearly believes she knows what he found. As Delia follows a trail of forged prints, blackmail payments, and donor secrets, her old life crashes into her new one when her former title-company boss arrives in Bramble Cross claiming he can “protect” her—if she stops asking questions. Now Delia must navigate festival politics, print-world rivalries, and a town eager to believe the easiest story before her bakery’s name is dragged through the mud again.

Because this time, the most dangerous evidence isn’t a recording. It’s something printed.