The Sheet Music Secret

Rowan Cassidy came back to Hollow Creek to run a bookshop—not to find a beloved music teacher dead in the community garden. The sheriff suspects an accidental overdose, but the cryptic sheet music clutched in the dead man's hand tells Rowan there may be more to his final morning. With an orange tabby underfoot and eleven years of evidence-archive experience behind her, Rowan begins searching a box of old scores for the secrets her neighbors leave unspoken.

Content warnings: Non-graphic depiction of a dead body, Death and bereavement, Suspected fatal medication overdose