The Porcelain Lie: A Slow Burn Small Town Cozy Mystery with a Female Amateur Sleuth and a Bloodhound (A Holloway Antiques Mystery Book 2) - Couverture souple

Penn, C.R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798181896208

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

When a deceased collector's estate delivers six allegedly priceless Meissen porcelain figures to Holloway Antiques, curator-turned-shop-owner Wren Holloway knows something is wrong before she can name it. The weight is off. The glaze is too smooth. And the crossed-swords mark on the base is a little too perfect.

Before Wren can finish her authentication, the collector's grandson turns up dead at the harbor during Palmetto Key's annual regatta—and suddenly a porcelain fraud becomes a murder investigation.

With Deputy Cal Renner working the case and Barnaby the bloodhound working his nose, Wren traces the forgeries through a reformed fraud network that reaches from a Charleston gallery to a mysterious sailboat moored in the island's marina. But as the evidence points toward the victim's own family, Wren discovers that the most dangerous fakes aren't the ones on her worktable—they're the ones walking around in silk scarves and rehearsed grief.

Now the killer is coming for the evidence, the island is taking sides, and Wren must trust her expertise, her community, and the man whose quiet steadiness has become the most genuine thing in her life. Because on Palmetto Key, the truth always surfaces—and this time, it's personal.

A warm, witty fair-play mystery with a solvable whodunit, a bloodhound with opinions, a slow-burn romance, and the kind of small-town community that cozy readers want to move into. Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams, Daryl Wood Gerber, and Jenn McKinlay.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798181896208
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 217
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