A.C.F. Bookens

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2019
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Poe Baxter

1 - Fatalities and Folios (Aug-2022)
2 - Butchery and Bindings (Nov-2022)
3 - Massacre and Margins (Sep-2022)
4 - Monograph And Murder (Feb-2023)
5 - Spines and Slaughter (Mar-2023)

A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery

1 - Publishable By Death (Nov-2019)
2 - Entitled To Kill (Jan-2020)
3 - Bound To Execute (Mar-2020)
4 - Plotted For Murder (Aug-2020)
5 - Tome To Tomb (Nov-2020)
6 - Scripted To Slay (Jan-2021)
7 - Proof Of Death (Aug-2021)
8 - Epilogue Of An Epitaph (Oct-2021)
9 - Hardcover Homicide (Dec-2021)
10 - Picture Book Peril (Dec-2022)

Stitches In Crime

1 - Crossed By Death (Feb-2021)
2 - Bobbins And Bodies (Apr-2021)
3 - Hanged By A Thread (May-2021)
4 - Counted Corpse (Sep-2021)
5 - Stitch X For Murder (Nov-2021)
6 - Sewn At The Crime (Jan-2022)
7 - Blood And Back Stitches (Mar-2022)
8 - Fatal Floss (Apr-2022)
9 - Strangled Skein (Aug-2022)
10 - Aida Time (Jan-2023)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Publishable By Death

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 1

    A bookstore, a grumpy newspaper woman, and a murder. Quiet St. Marin’s has just gotten a little more lively . . . and a little less alive.

    All Harvey Beckett wants to do is read books, help the residents of St. Marin’s find the perfect ...

  • Entitled To Kill

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 2

    A dead dairy farmer, a family's unkept secret, and an amateur sleuth on the case. When bookstore owner Harvey Beckett wanders into the local farm-to-table shop, she isn’t expecting to stumble over the body of the neighborhood’s most-reviled farm...

  • Bound To Execute

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 3

    Thousands of dollars missing. The bank manager dead. An artist to blame? In the perfect days of early May, bookshop owner Harvey Beckett is looking forward to evenings of walking Mayhem, reading in the before bed, and maybe even enjoying a snuggle w...

  • Plotted For Murder

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 4

    She has always said if she was running, it's because she was being chased. That's never been more true. It's Autumn, bookstore owner Harvey Beckett's favorite time of year, and she's most excited about two things - her bookshop's float in the annual ...

  • Tome To Tomb

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 5

    A dead body in Santa's lap is not what Harvey Beckett wanted for Christmas. The streets of St. Marin's are decorated for Christmas, and Harvey Beckett has decided that she'll host Santa Claus at her bookstore, reviving a town's long-standing traditio...

  • Scripted To Slay

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 6

    Snow days aren't supposed to end with dead bodies.Harvey Beckett has just finished a quiet meal after shoveling the sidewalks around Main Street when the body of the new bartender in town is discovered behind the bar. When Harvey begins to look into ...

  • Crossed By Death

    Stitches In Crime - 1

    Salvaging from historic buildings isn't supposed to require reporting a murder.​When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton crawls into an abandoned store with a house attached, she certainly isn't expecting to find a body on site. But soo...

  • Bobbins And Bodies

    Stitches In Crime - 2

    All she wanted from the old farmhouse was the gorgeous mantel, not a dead body.Paisley Sutton always expects the unexpected when she goes into a house to salvage the architectural prizes before its torn down. She evens knows she might encounter a rod...

  • Hanged By A Thread

    Stitches In Crime - 3

    The promise of old printer's trays has her heart aflutter, but it nearly stops when she finds a body at the bottom of the elevator shaft.When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton heard that a 19th century printing press was still in the old wa...



  • Proof Of Death

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 7

    The murders in St. Marin's Library's mystery section just got very real. When the local librarian is found dead among the stacks, the rumors about her reputation reach a fever pitch, but Harvey Beckett can't let a fellow book-lover's name be sullied....

  • Counted Corpse

    Stitches In Crime - 4

    The truth shall set her free, but not if someone wants her dead first.Business has been good for historian Paisley Sutton, but when she goes into her own church parish house to salvage some of the early 20th century fixtures before the building is de...

  • Epilogue Of An Epitaph

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 8

    Everyone loves getting mail, but not when its clasped in someone's cold, dead hands.Harvey Beckett had heard tale of how the postmistress steams open people's mail to feed her gossip-hungry customers, but when the postmistress is murdered, Harvey lea...

  • Stitch X For Murder

    Stitches In Crime - 5

    Old Douglas Fir timbers bring good money, but maybe not as much as keeping quiet about the story of a murder.Paisley Sutton hates to see an old barn falling down, so when she has a chance to take in a crew of friends to salvage timbers, she goes in w...

  • Hardcover Homicide

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 9

    Nail guns have always terrified Harvey Beckett, and now she knows why.Harvey loves sharing the parking lot of her bookstore with the hardware store across the way, but when an unruly customer is killed in the lot one night, she begins to wonder if th...

  • Sewn At The Crime

    Stitches In Crime - 6

    Salvaging old books is one thing. Finding bones is entirely another.Salvager Paisley Sutton has been wanting to go inside the old two-room school for years, but when she finally gains access, just before a local community group begins a full restorat...

  • Blood And Back Stitches

    Stitches In Crime - 7

    Log cabins are supposed to be full of inspiring stories, not bloody bones.When Paisley Sutton gets the chance to salvage from her first antique log cabin, she is ecstatic, until she finds the body of a murdered man in the back room. When she and her ...

  • Fatal Floss

    Stitches In Crime - 8

    A morning visit to the chicken coop is supposed to be a delight, not a fright. On the day when Paisley Sutton goes to salvage barn board from an old chicken coop on her neighbor’s land, she thinks the worst thing she may find is rotten eggs. L...

  • Fatalities and Folios

    Poe Baxter - 1

    Who knew that finding a rare book would also involve running for her life? When Poe Baxter fled her job as an English professor, she was thrilled to be launching into her career as an antiquarian book dealer with a trip to Edinburgh. But she soon fin...

  • Strangled Skein

    Stitches In Crime - 9

    A three-hundred-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones.But when Paisley Sutton is invited in to salvage the valuables from the attic of an old plantation house, she finds more than she expected amongst the Christmas de...



  • Massacre and Margins

    Poe Baxter - 3

    She thought she was just going to reminisce, enjoy the Northern Lights, and celebrate an author, but a murderer had other ideas. On her first trip to Iceland, Poe Baxter is excited about the scenery, the culture and the rare book she's hoping to find...

  • Butchery and Bindings

    Poe Baxter - 2

    It's not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you'll survive the day. Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famou...

  • Picture Book Peril

    A St. Marin's Cozy Mystery - 10

    Secrets long held are sometimes secrets best kept, right? When the sweet but reclusive clockmaker in town reaches out to Harvey to ask for her advice about a situation, the bookstore owner finds herself wrapped in a web of tales that leaves her uncle...

  • Aida Time

    Stitches In Crime - 10

    What's a woman to do if she finds a skeleton in her own back yard? Since she moved into her farmhouse, Paisley Sutton has wanted to convert the old summer kitchen house into an office for herself, and it's finally time. But when her contractor begins...

  • Monograph And Murder

    Poe Baxter - 4

    Travel to Syria isn't always the safest choice, but it isn't the political tension that's the danger for Poe. No, the danger is linked to her latest book acquisition.  Poe Baxter once heard a man say if he could travel anywhere in the world, h...

  • The Little Shop of Murders

    Book shops, boutiques and small businesses are the lifeblood of small towns but what secrets lie behind those pretty display windows and in the alleyways behind these charming streets?Step inside for a personal retail experience like no other!'The Li...

  • Spines and Slaughter

    Poe Baxter - 5

    Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend ...

  • Deckles And Death

    A signed first edition by one of the world's most renowned authors isn't something Poe Baxter can pass up, but she would definitely have passed on the murder connected with this particular copy. When a rare first edition of Rushdie's Midnight's Child...

  • Needle You Mind

    It was supposed to be a simple salvage job. A couple mantels, some door knobs. . . but definitely not a dead body. Paisley Sutton is sad to see an old Craftsman cottage be gutted, but she's at least glad she gets to salvage some of the pieces. But wh...

  • Dog-Eared Danger

    The belief is that all animal lovers are good people, but sometimes, that's just not true. In preparation for her wedding day and to thank her loyal companions, Harvey Beckett has scheduled a spa day for her pups, Mayhem and Taco, at the brand new do...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A.C.F. Bookens has published 29 books.

A.C.F. Bookens does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dog-Eared Danger, was published in February 2024.

The first book by A.C.F. Bookens, Publishable By Death, was published in November 2019.

Yes. A.C.F. Bookens has 3 series.
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