The Provenance Poisoning: A Rare Book Fair Murder Mystery

About The Provenance Poisoning: A Rare Book Fair Murder Mystery

At Blackthorn’s rare book fair, a murder turns a celebration of literary history into a very public scandal. The evening should have been simple: a prestigious guest, a prized manuscript, and a crowd eager to spend money on old paper and local legend. Instead, one speaker is dead, a poisoned sweet points toward deliberate murder, and the evidence looks almost too neat.

As gossip spreads and donors scramble to protect their names, the woman at the center of the storm spots what everyone else misses. The proof copy near the body has been tampered with. A crucial leaf has vanished from the display manuscript.

And the dead man had started asking dangerous questions about provenance, ownership, and who has been polishing Blackthorn’s history into something cleaner than the truth. To catch the killer, she will have to untangle forged histories, missing pages, and a trail of lies hidden inside the rare-book trade itself. Because this was never just about one death.

Someone in Blackthorn has far too much to lose if the real story comes out.