Castle Bookshop Mystery Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Trouble on the Books | 2019 | Buy |
| Death on the Page | 2020 | Buy |
| A Deadly Chapter | 2021 | Buy |
| A Deadly Chapter: A Castle Bookshop Mystery | 2021 | N/A |
Essie Lang is a cozy mystery author and former mystery bookstore owner. She has been nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel and short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada for Best Short Story under other pen names. Outside of writing, she enjoys choral singing.
Her Castle Bookshop Mystery series follows Shelby Cox, who returns to her hometown of Alexandria Bay in the Thousand Islands to take over her aunt’s bookstore and manage a second location inside a castle on Blye Island. The picturesque setting along the St. Lawrence River provides the backdrop for murders that Shelby keeps stumbling into. The series ran from 2019 to 2021, with three novels: Trouble on the Books, Death on the Page, and A Deadly Chapter.