The Marjorie Corey Files: The Complete Series (All Five Patchogu Island Mysteries)

All five Patchogu Island mysteries in one volume. The Thursday Murder Club if the cozy was hiding something real. The complete story of three women, one coffee shop, and the grandmother whose secrets they spend five books learning to read. On a six-mile barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, the Ginger Mae Coffee Shop opens at seven-fifteen every morning, the way it has for forty years. When the woman the island called Grandma Knapp dies, she leaves the shop to Victoria, Olivia, and Solei, three friends in their late twenties who only meant to make coffee. What she also leaves them, scattered through cedar boxes and fireproof safes and the back-hallway portrait no one ever looked at twice, is a trail. Book by book, a single quiet death pulls a thread that runs far past the island: a sixty-year-old conspiracy and a photograph from Dallas, a suppressed compound worth a fortune, a forged Civil War land deed, a town's deleted history, and at last the borrowed name of the woman at the center of it all. Each case stands on its own. Together they answer one question the series asks from its first page: who was she, really? This complete collection gathers all five mysteries: 1. The Second Shooter 2. The Recipe Notebooks 3. The Sea Captain's Portrait 4. The Prattler Files 5. The Morning Table Warmly atmospheric, quietly literary, and built around three women who together make one complete investigator. For readers of Richard Osman, Ann Cleeves, Jacqueline Winspear, and anyone who loves a series with a real secret at its heart. Everything she built was real. The name was borrowed. The life was entirely her own.