The Lending Library

About The Lending Library

Megan Ridley traded a burned-out career and a too-loud city for a quiet cottage in Alderly, a hill-country town that loves its books almost as much as it keeps its secrets. She tells herself she's only passing through — until a neighbor turns up at her door with a box of inscribed volumes left behind by a woman no one in town quite understood, and a question about the past that won't let go. By the next morning, that question has become something far darker, in Megan's own wildflower garden. Armed with a reader's eye for the stories people tell about themselves, a twelve-pound wire fox terrier named Gatsby with strong opinions, and a sheriff who wishes she'd stay out of it, Megan discovers that in a town that reads, every book remembers who held it last. A warm, clever, utterly bingeable cozy mystery for anyone who's ever believed a library could keep a secret