✒️ Her death journal was supposed to be fiction—until the first body dropped.

Virginia Varnell is a librarian with a flair for vintage cardigans, macabre metaphors, and writing fictional death scenes in her secret journal. It’s how she decompresses—quietly imagining the most ironic ends for Ravenswood’s most irritating citizens. No one was ever supposed to actually die.

But when local developer Gerald Rutherford turns up dead in a scene that matches one of V’s entries—right down to the plaque and the scaffolding—her private hobby becomes a public scandal. Now the mayor (her uncle) wants her silenced, the town wants answers, and Detective Alex Stone is giving her a little too much suspicious side-eye… even if his broody scowl does pair nicely with murder investigations.

Armed with caffeine, cat hair, and Cleo—the library assistant turned true crime hype squad—V must clear her name before the killer strikes again. But someone is reading her journal. And worse… they might be writing back.

Deadlines: A V Mystery is a darkly cozy whodunnit perfect for fans of witty sleuths, morbid humor, small-town secrets, and cats who always know too much.