The Vanishing Type, Ellery Adams
The Vanishing Type, Ellery Adams
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The Vanishing Type

Author: Ellery Adams

Narrator: Cris Dukehart

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington is encouraging customers to cozy up indoors with a good book. Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet—until Deputy Andrews pulls Nora into the sci-fi section and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal.

His bride-to-be, Hester, loves Little Women, and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town's new movie theater. But right before the deputy pops the question, Nora makes an unsettling discovery—someone has mutilated all her store's copies of The Scarlet Letter, slicing angrily into the pages wherever Hester Prynne's name is mentioned.

The coincidence disturbs Nora, who's one of the few in Miracle Springs who knows that Hester gave up a baby for adoption many years ago. Her family heaped shame on her, and Hester still feels so guilty that she hasn't even told her future husband. But when a dead man is found on a hiking trail just outside town, carrying a rare book, the members of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society unearth a connection to Hester's past. Someone is intent on bringing the past to light, and it’s not just Hester's relationship at stake, but her life. . .

About Ellery Adams

Ellery Adams has written over forty mystery novels and can't imagine spending a day away from the keyboard. Ms. Adams, a native New Yorker, has had a lifelong love affair with stories, food, rescue animals, and large bodies of water. When not working on her next novel, she reads, bakes, gardens, spoils her three cats, and rearranges her bookshelves. She lives with her husband and two children (aka the Trolls) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on March 28, 2022

This is one of my favorite cozy mystery series. I love that it is centered around friends and books. Ellery Adams has a writing style that I like as well, and I always keep watching for any of her books. In this one there's a possible new romance, an engagement, a murder mystery, and of course, book......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 04, 2025

Catching up… A bookstore. Books. Yummy baked goods. Best friends. Murder. What more can a lover of cozy mysteries ask for? And…Even magical realism. Our main character Nora has the “ability” to know what types of books people need, and bestie Hester bakes goods that bring people to their fondest chil......more

Goodreads review by Micky on February 28, 2022

Read this book! Seriously, it's an amazing book. However, it is the 5th book in the series and you would be missing out on a ton of entertainment and backstory developing the characters and their relationships so I guess I should say, read this series! The characters are so very realistic. They are......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 20, 2022

Secret, Book, & Scone Society is by far one of my very favorite series which just so happens to be a cozy mystery series on top of that. I love the way that Ellery Adams writes, and she created the best of the best characters when she created these books. The Vanishing Type is now the 5th installmen......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on March 11, 2023

I love this series so much. I read this one the fastest. The friendships are so strong and loyal. Even when it reads a little mushy, it still makes me smile. The 4 main ladies, Sheldon, McCabe, Jack, etc. are people I would definitely want in my friends circle. I want to try the chocolate book pocke......more