When Summer Merriweather s mother dies of a heart-attack, the Shakespeare professor is forced to cut her English holiday short. Back on Brigid s Island, NC, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to sell her mum s bookstore and go home. But as she drops by the shop, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: Sell the bookstore or die. What method is behind the madness? Summer starts sleuthing, but there are more suspects on Brigid s Island than she thought. And if she can t find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy s worth of corpses including her own.