Dead Set in Type: A Small-Town Letterpress Murder Mystery

About Dead Set in Type: A Small-Town Letterpress Murder Mystery

Rowan Page came home to reopen her aunt’s vintage letterpress studio. She didn’t come home to find a body in the back room. On Arts Crawl night, the Proof & Press should be buzzing with espresso and wedding proofs.

Instead, Rowan’s press spits out a message she never set: STOP PRINTING LIES. Minutes later, her first big client is found dead beside the drying racks… and the police have an easy theory. Rowan did it.

Her fingerprints are everywhere. She was the last person to argue with the victim. And her struggling shop makes a perfect motive for a town that loves a neat story.

But Rowan knows one thing for sure: someone used her press to deliver a threat… and they’ll do it again to keep the truth buried. With her best friend Mina behind the coffee bar, a bossy shop cat claiming every paper stack as a throne, and Detective Eli Mercer warning her to stop meddling, Rowan starts digging through a suspect list stacked with wedding vendors, rival business owners, and polished “community leaders” who smile while they sharpen the knife. Because in Juniper Glen, paperwork is power.

And murder is just another way to control the narrative.