But when a precious artifact goes missing, and Edwin's sister is brutally murdered, Delaney needs to keep her job, protect her new friends, and learn the truth behind this Scottish tragedy. And Tom the bartender from across the street- well, it doesn't hurt that he looks awfully good in a kilt. Her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime: the shop is filled with everything a book lover could want, each item as eclectic as the people who work there. Edwin has promised that she'll be working with 'a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes,' and Delaney can't wait to get started.'-ĭelaney Nichols packed her bags and moved from Kansas to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine, a bookshop located in the heart of the city. Being called away couldn’t have come at a worse time. When Delaney arrives at The Cracked Spine bookstore, she learns Edwin has been called away to London and taken Hamlet with him.

She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime. Fateful Words is the eighth book in the A Scottish Bookshop Mystery series by Paige Shelton.

Delaney decides to do some sleuthing of her own, to find out just what the real story is behind the priceless folio, and how it's connected to the tragic death, all without getting harmed herself.'In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. An unexpected bonus is Tom the bartender from across the street, with his piercing eyes, and a rolling brogue - and it doesn't hurt that he looks awfully good in a kilt.īut before she can settle into her new life, a precious artifact - a previously undiscovered First Folio of Shakespeare's plays - goes missing, and Edwin's sister is murdered, seemingly in connection to the missing folio.

When she arrives, she meets her new Scottish family also working at the Cracked Spine are Rosie, perpetually wrapped in scarves, and who always has tiny dog Hector in tow Hamlet, a nineteen-year-old thespian with a colored past and bright future and Edwin, who is just as enigmatic and mysterious as Delaney expected.

Edwin has promised that she'll be working with 'a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes,' and Delaney can't wait to get started. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime. In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine.

The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton