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by Paige Shelton


  I did.

  “What?!” I proclaimed.

  “Marry me?” he said so casually that I almost asked him to repeat it.

  Rodger appeared over his shoulder. “I told him this was not the right way.”

  “Rodger,” Tom said. “This is perfect.”

  A ring took up the space that a good shot of Scottish whisky normally would have. I had to blink away a million tears to see it clearly, and stop myself from hyperventilating to say anything else.

  “We’re in my pub, soon tae be hopefully ours, where we had our first date. Delaney had no idea this was coming,” Tom said, but he looked at me, not Rodger. “She’ll never forget it.”

  He took my hands in his. I was still holding the glass. “I love you, Delaney Nichols, from Kansas in America. Marry me. Please.” He fished out the ring and placed it on my shaking finger.

  “Well?” Rodger asked.

  I sniffed and wiped my nose with the hand that didn’t have the ring.

  “Tom was right,” I said. “This is perfect.”

  Someone must have scored another goal, because more cheering ensued.

  THE VICTIMS OF WILLIAM BURKE AND WILLIAM HARE

  Joseph the Miller

  Abigail Simpson

  An Englishman

  An old woman

  Mary Paterson

  Effie

  A drunk woman

  An old woman and her deaf grandson

  Mrs. Ostler

  Ann McDougal

  Mary Haldane

  Peggy Haldane

  James Wilson

  Mary Docherty

  ALSO BY PAIGE SHELTON

  SCOTTISH BOOKSHOP MYSTERY SERIES

  The Cracked Spine

  Of Books and Bagpipes

  A Christmas Tartan (a mini-mystery)

  COUNTRY COOKING SCHOOL MYSTERY SERIES

  If Fried Chicken Could Fly

  If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance

  If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion

  If Catfish Had Nine Lives

  If Onions Could Spring Leeks

  FARMERS MARKET MYSTERY SERIES

  Farm Fresh Murder

  Fruit of All Evil

  Crops and Robbers

  Red Hot Deadly Peppers

  A Killer Maize

  Merry Market Murder

  Bushel Full of Murder

  DANGEROUS TYPE MYSTERY SERIES

  To Helvetica and Back

  Bookman Dead Style

  Comic Sans Murder

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PAIGE SHELTON had a nomadic childhood, as her father’s job as a football coach took the family to seven different towns before she was even twelve years old. After college at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, she moved to Salt Lake City, where she thought she’d only stay a few years, but she fell in love with the mountains and a great guy who became her husband. After a couple decades in Utah, she and her family recently moved to Arizona. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Epigraph

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Also by Paige Shelton

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  LOST BOOKS AND OLD BONES. Copyright © 2018 by Paige Shelton. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover illustration by Robert Crawford

  Plaid background © Alhovik/Shutterstock.com

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Shelton, Paige, author.

  Title: Lost books and old bones / Paige Shelton.

  Description: First edition. | New York: Minotaur Books, 2018. | Series: A Scottish Bookshop mystery; 3

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017050904 | ISBN 9781250127792 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250127808 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Booksellers and bookselling—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | Edinburgh (Scotland)—Fiction. | Women booksellers—Fiction. | Women detectives—Fiction. | Bookstores—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

  Classification: LCC PS3619.H45345 L67 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017050904

  e-ISBN 9781250127808

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  First Edition: April 2018

 

 

 


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