The Last Word At Catawba Library

When journalist Willa Vale receives one final message from her anonymous source, she expects a dangerous lead — not a body waiting in the abandoned Briarlock Mill.

For two years, “Finch” has fed Willa documents exposing corruption in charming Catawba Falls. But when the informant is found dead beside a missing library drawer and a cryptic note, Willa realizes she may have been chasing a carefully arranged version of the truth.

Enter Miss Ruthie Knobblebrush, the sharp-eyed head librarian who knows every family tree, every town rumor, and every secret tucked between the shelves. Together, Willa and Ruthie follow a trail through old pension records, smoky archives, forgotten photographs, and a forty-two-year-old disappearance the town tried very hard to misfile.

But Catawba Falls has polished its lies for generations — and someone is still willing to burn the record clean.

Warm, witty, and gently suspenseful, The Last Word at Catawba Library is a cozy mystery full of small-town secrets, amateur sleuthing, library charm, and the stubborn courage it takes to put every name back where it belongs.