Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Broken Spine | 2021 | Dorothy St. James | Buy |
| 2 | A Perfect Bind | 2022 | Dorothy St. James | Buy |
| 3 | A Book Club to Die for | 2022 | Dorothy St. James | Buy |
The Beloved Bookroom Mystery series starts with a premise that will make book lovers wince: a small-town library goes fully digital and throws out all its physical books. Librarian Trudell Madison can’t let that happen, so she secretly salvages the collection and builds a hidden reading room in the library’s basement. Then someone gets murdered, and the secret bookroom becomes entangled in the investigation.
Dorothy St. James built three books around this concept between 2021 and 2022. The Broken Spine, A Perfect Bind, and A Book Club to Die For each layer a new mystery onto the bookroom setting. For cozy mystery readers who are also book lovers, the series hits a very specific sweet spot.