The Last Honest Antique

Maren Vale is trying very hard to become respectable.

After years of quietly moving stolen antiques through her charming village shop, Vale & Vine, Maren has sworn off shady sales, secret buyers, and anything that arrives wrapped in suspicious velvet. But when her last black-market buyer threatens to expose her unless she returns to business, Maren’s fresh start begins to crack like old porcelain.

Then the buyer is found dead beside St. Bartholomew’s church.

With her shop card near the body, her hidden ledger in demand, and half of Brindlewick suddenly tangled in old Broadmere estate secrets, Maren is the most obvious suspect in the village. Unfortunately for the real killer, she is also the only person who knows how to read the trail of antique clues left behind.

With the help of Clarence, her opinionated marmalade cat, Maren follows a trail of stolen silver, stopped clocks, violet-scented notes, and long-buried family scandals. But the closer she comes to the truth, the clearer it becomes that someone in Brindlewick has spent decades polishing lies into heirlooms.

A warm, witty cozy mystery filled with village gossip, antique secrets, gentle suspense, and one cat who considers himself essential to police procedure.