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Six Towns. Six Mysteries.
One Purpose.

Home isn't a place — it's a purpose. Join Penny Page and her vintage VW book bus as she follows her grandfather's map across the Midwest and discovers the secret someone is willing to kill to keep buried.

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The Traveling Book Shop Mysteries

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Penny Page was a burned-out librarian with no library, a vintage VW book bus she didn't ask for, and a golden retriever with suspiciously good instincts. When her grandfather dies and leaves her a hand-drawn map marking six small Midwest towns, she hits the road — and discovers that each stop holds a guardian quietly protecting America's endangered literary heritage as part of a secret network called Library Falcon. Someone is killing them.

Murder by the Book — Book One cover

Book One  ·  Willow Creek, Minnesota  ·  October

Murder by the Book

Penny's first stop on her grandfather's map leads straight to a murder scene — the town mayor is poisoned at the Apple Harvest Festival, and somehow, the stranger with the book bus is the prime suspect.

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Deadly Ever After — Book Two cover

Book Two  ·  Lover's Lake, Wisconsin  ·  February

Deadly Ever After

A Valentine's festival on a frozen Wisconsin lake. The woman her grandfather sent Penny to find is murdered — and the killer has a perfect alibi that shouldn't be possible.

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Book Three  ·  Prescott, Wisconsin  ·  April

Overdue Justice

A library renovation uncovers a thirty-year-old skeleton in the basement. The cold case is officially unsolved — but the danger it connects to is very much alive, and it already knows Penny is here.

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Book Four  ·  Galena, Illinois  ·  June

Cover Story

A master bookbinder is murdered at a summer arts festival. The antique journal he was restoring holds secrets someone in this picture-perfect tourist town will kill to keep hidden — and Penny is already too close.

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Book Five  ·  Decorah, Iowa  ·  August

Fine Print

A museum curator is poisoned the night before revealing a literary discovery that could rewrite Decorah's history. And the person who has been following Penny since Willow Creek? They're finally close enough to touch.

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Book Six  ·  Mackinac Island, Michigan  ·  October

The Last Bookmark

On a car-free island at the edge of Lake Huron, the final guardian of her grandfather's legacy is dying — and someone is determined to make sure his secrets die with him. This is where the map ends. This is where everything began.

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About the Author

A Storyteller Who Believes Home Is Something You Find Along the Way

Catherine Paige Winters writes cozy mysteries rooted in the quiet magic of American small towns — the kind with harvest festivals and frozen lakes and diners where the pie is always suspiciously good and the regulars know far more than they let on.

Her debut series, The Traveling Book Shop Mysteries, follows Penny Page — a burned-out librarian who inherits a vintage VW book bus, a golden retriever with excellent instincts, and a hand-drawn map she doesn't yet understand. As Penny follows her grandfather's trail across the Midwest, she uncovers a decades-old secret network called Library Falcon, a slow-burn romance with a bookbinder who knows more than he's saying, and a sense of purpose she didn't know she was missing.

Six towns. Six murders. One map that changes everything.

6 Books in the
debut series
6 Midwest towns
on Penny's map
1 Golden retriever
with great instincts
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