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ACF Bookens loves a good mystery, a quaint bookshop, and a good cup of coffee. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she takes joy in the mountain views and the quiet back roads. She lives with her son Milo and a beautiful rescue hound who inspired Mayhem in her St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series.

Aslan, the cat in her books, is based on her departed first cat by that name, who spent an inordinate amount of time digging up her houseplants.

In her books, Bookens addresses issues of justice and writes with intention to disrupt the white supremacy that says that "whiteness" is normal by making purposeful note of every character's ethnicity. She is weary of books that assume everyone is white unless the author says otherwise because being white is not the default of reality.

Her hope is that readers enjoy escaping into her stories and are challenged, just a little, to make themselves better people and the world a better place from the reading.

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Crossed By Death (Stitches In Crime Book 1) 23 Feb, 2021

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Salvaging from historic buildings isn’t supposed to require reporting a murder.

When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton crawls into an abandoned store with a house attached, she certainly isn’t expecting to find a body on site. But soon, her discovery sends Paisley on an expedition through history that links this murder to the one that led the previous owners to abandon the building in the first place. And someone doesn’t want her to salvage this story from the wreckage.

Can Paisley preserve herself and her young son while also uncovering the stories that matter most?

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Publishable By Death (St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) 25 Nov, 2019

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Change is hard in a small Southern town, especially when it brings a side of murder.
All Harvey Beckett wants to do is help the residents of St. Marin's find the perfect book for that moment, snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem, and be ignored by her cat Aslan. But when the small, waterside town's newest resident discovers the body of the community's persnickety reporter in her bookshop storeroom just before her grand opening, Harvey can't help trying to solve the crime, even when it might cost her business and her life. The more questions Harvey asks, the more secrets she uncovers.
Will Harvey and her friends be able to solve the murder of the town reporter without her becoming a victim herself?

This book addresses racism in both the plot and the writing style.

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Fatalities and Folios (Poe Baxter Books Series Book 1) 23 Aug, 2022

by ACF Bookens

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Who knew that finding a rare book would also involve running for her life?

When Poe Baxter fled her job as an English professor, she was thrilled to be launching into her career as an antiquarian book dealer with a trip to Edinburgh. But she soon finds that her queries into a particular book’s provenance are drawing some less desirable attention to her and her best friend Beattie. Not everyone is interested in sharing this particular story.

Will the women be able to discover the book’s origins without bringing about their own ends?

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Dog-Eared Danger (St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series Book 11) 6 Feb, 2024

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The belief is that all animal lovers are good people, but sometimes, that’s just not true.

In preparation for her wedding day and to thank her loyal companions, Harvey Beckett has scheduled a spa day for her pups, Mayhem and Taco, at the brand new doggy daycare in town. But when the pups return from their escape bedraggled and anxious, Harvey gets curious, and we know what curiosity did to the cat.

Who knew pampering pooches could be so scary?

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Deckles And Death (Poe Baxter Books Series Book 6) 24 Oct, 2023

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A signed first edition by one of the world’s most renowned authors isn’t something Poe Baxter can pass up, but she would definitely have passed on the murder connected with this particular copy.

When a rare first edition of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children became available in the author’s hometown of Mumbai, Poe and Beattie book a flight immediately and arrive, only to discover that the book is missing and its previous owner murdered. Now, to find the book, they must find a killer. The only problem is that they’re really good at hunting things down.

Will their fervor for a rare book mean the end of their collecting days?

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Spines and Slaughter (Poe Baxter Books Series Book 5) 25 Apr, 2023

by ACF Bookens

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Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces.

When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they're having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake.

Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it's too late?

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The Little Shop of Murders 1 Apr, 2023

by Millie Ravensworth, ACF Bookens, Geraldine Moorkens Byrne, Rachel McLean, Diane Kelly, Nikki Knight, London Lovett, Lise McClendon, Flora McGowan, Kathryn Mykel, J. New, Eryn Scott, Debbie Young, Victoria Tait, Carlene O’Connor

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Book shops, boutiques and small businesses are the lifeblood of small towns but what secrets lie behind those pretty display windows and in the alleyways behind these charming streets?
Step inside for a personal retail experience like no other!
‘The Little Shop of Murders’ collects together fifteen superb cozy mysteries written by some of the finest authors in the genre.
All author and publisher profits from the sale of this book go to children’s charities, helping those most in need.

Stories include:

Don’t Toy with Me by Diane Kelly
A Man With No Imagination by Millie Ravensworth
The Forget-Me-Not Antiques Mystery by Victoria Tait
It Was Our Song by Nikki Knight
Always and Furever by Eryn Scott
Wild Irish Dreams by Lise McClendon
Architect of a Murder by Carlene O’Connor
Blooms and Blackmail by London Lovett
Secondhand Murder by J. New
The Lady of the House by Flora McGowan
Requiem for a Violin by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne
Nightly Nuisance by Kathryn Mykel
The Gift of Dragons by ACF Bookens
Nowhere to Hide by Debbie Young
Murder in the Bookshop by Rachel McLean

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Monograph And Murder (Poe Baxter Books Series Book 4) 14 Mar, 2023

by ACF Bookens

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Travel to Syria isn’t always the safest choice, but it isn’t the political tension that’s the danger for Poe. No, the danger is linked to her latest book acquisition.

Poe Baxter once heard a man say if he could travel anywhere in the world, he’d visit Damascus, and she hasn’t thought about a visit to the city since. So when she hears that a rare codex from the 1st century has come onto the market there, she and Beattie book the next flight to see if they can buy it. Yet, when they arrive, they find there’s much more at stake than just a rare scroll.

Can centuries of secrets be unearthed safely? Or do they need to be buried again?

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The Poe Baxter Books Series Box Set - Volume 1 (The Poe Baxter Books Series Box Sets) 14 Feb, 2023

by ACF Bookens

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When Poe Baxter decides to leave her job as an English professor and takes a position gathering rare folklore texts for her uncle, she doesn’t realize that she’ll be launched into a life-threatening world of danger, world travel, and even a bit of romance.

Get the first three books in ACF Bookens’ new series now.

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Aida Time (Stitches In Crime Book 10) 24 Jan, 2023

by ACF Bookens

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What’s a woman to do if she finds a skeleton in her own back yard?

Since she moved into her farmhouse, Paisley Sutton has wanted to convert the old summer kitchen house into an office for herself, and it’s finally time. But when her contractor begins opening up the walls to insulate, they find far more than they expected.

Will Paisley be able to solve this time-worn murder, or will someone stop her before she can?

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Picture Book Peril (St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series 10) 27 Dec, 2022

by ACF Bookens

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Secrets long held are sometimes secrets best kept, right?

When the sweet but reclusive clockmaker in town reaches out to Harvey to ask for her advice about a situation, the bookstore owner finds herself wrapped in a web of tales that leaves her unclear about what’s true and what’s not.

As Harvey and her friends begin to unravel the truth from the legend, they discover a whole lot more than they bargained for, including a body.

Can they discover who is the villain and who the hero before they become lost to the story themselves?

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Butchery and Bindings (Poe Baxter Books Series Book 3) 18 Oct, 2022

by ACF Bookens

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It’s not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you’ll survive the day.

Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famous South African novelist has come on the market, she takes the opportunity to fly to the city. But as soon as she and her best friend Beattie begin researching the whereabouts of this supposed literary treasure, they come upon another mystery that takes their attention and puts them in peril.

What is a rare book worth? A human life or two?

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