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    "title": "The Bookshop Murder",
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    "description": "<p>Join Flora Steele &ndash; bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, day dreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case! Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she&rsquo;s in for the surprise of her life! Because there, amongst her bookcases, is the body of a young man, with a shock of white-blond hair. But who was he? And how did he come to be there? Determined to save her beloved bookshop&rsquo;s reputation and solve the baffling mystery, Flora enlists the help of handsome and brooding Jack Carrington: crime writer, recluse and her most reliable customer. The unlikely duo set about investigating the extraordinary case, following a lead across the sleepy village of Abbeymead to The Priory Hotel. When the hotel&rsquo;s gardener dies suddenly, and they find out their victim was staying there, Flora&rsquo;s suspicions are raised. Are the two deaths connected? Is someone at the hotel responsible &ndash; the nervous cook, the money-obsessed receptionist, or the formidable manageress? As the trail of clues takes Flora and Jack all over the village itbecomes clear there&rsquo;s more than one person hiding secrets in Abbeymead&hellip; But does Flora have what it takes to uncover the truth &ndash; or will her amateur sleuthing put her in harm&rsquo;s way?</p>",
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