Deckles And Death

Poe Baxter: book expert, travel enthusiast, and amateur sleuth with a knack for trouble.

A rare, signed edition of Midnight’s Children should have been the highlight of Poe’s trip to Mumbai. But when the auction house owner is murdered, and the police point the finger at her, book collecting takes a deadly turn.

With a cryptic code hidden in an old book of Marathi folktales, Poe and her friends must unravel a mystery that spans centuries. But someone is willing to kill to keep the past buried—can Poe crack the case before she becomes the next chapter in a deadly story?