title: Homicide in Hardcover: A Bibliophile Mystery
author:  Kate Carlisle 
description: <b>4.5 Stars -- Reviewer's Choice nominee for Best First Mystery Novel</b> "This first in a new series is going to launch Carlisle to a bestselling position and have readers looking forward to the next installment of delightfully eccentric characters, droll dialogue and a meticulously planned crime. Bibliophile heroine Brooklyn Wainwright is brilliant, feisty and funny."<br /> --<i>RT Book Review Magazine</i>
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  **A debutante, a disgraced lord, and a dead body. A disaster... or the
  grimmest meet-cute in Regency London?**
  
  
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  Miss Delilah Bancroft has a problem. A sizable and rather bloody one. Namely,
  a dead man on the library floor. She’d only wished for a moment of solitude
  out of the glaring eyes of Society. Instead, she’s caught red-handed
  (unfortunately, literally) by an attractive stranger. Is he her salvation or
  ruination?
  
  
  Marcus, Lord Wyndam has inherited a decrepit castle and a tainted title.
  During his desperate search for evidence to silence whispers of treason
  against his father, he stumbles across a woman holding a deadly stiletto over
  a body. Is she murderer or pawn? What he knows for sure is that she is his
  only link to the truth. With enemies beating down the door, he spirits her
  from the scene before she is discovered with blood on her hands—and her pretty
  white debutante dress—to unearth her part in the grisly plot.
  
  
  Delilah pro