Crime and Parchment

By Daphne Silver,

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***Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel***
Rare books librarian Juniper Blume knows this much...an ancient Celtic manuscript shouldn't be in a Maryland cemetery. But that's exactly what her brother-in-law claims.


Last year, Juniper saw the 1,200-year-old Book of Kells in Ireland. She learned how their bejeweled…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Crime and Parchment as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love a good cozy mystery and Daphne Silver gave me that plus so much more. Her characters are people you'd want to find and have tea with and the story was both twisty and awesome. She deftly wove in the history aspects and kept me turning pages.

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