Murder by Manuscript

Christmas, 1857. London is glowing with candlelight-and hiding a killer in plain sight.

Apothecary Clara Wetherly already has her hands full: a struggling Bloomsbury shop, a grandmother's ghost who won't stop rearranging the shelves, and Inspector Graham Redgrave, whose visits bring more than murder into her carefully ordered life.

Then celebrated publisher Philip Hartwick is found dead at his desk. The coroner rules it natural causes-until Clara's friend, aspiring novelist Harriet Collins, ...