Broke, friendless, and career in freefall--will solving a murder get her life back on track?
An Uncollected Death introduces Charlotte Anthony, a forty-something divorcΓ©e, single mother and magazine editor who suddenly finds herself an empty-nester, unemployed, and on the verge of bankruptcy. She gratefully takes the job of editing the journals of Olivia Bernadin, a long-lost nouveau roman author. Things rapidly deteriorate, however, when she finds Olivia left for dead the first day on the job--and herself a suspect in the crime.
Charlotte turns amateur sleuth as she works out cryptic clues to find Olivia's hidden journals and to clear herself of suspicion, all while reinventing her life by downsizing to a tiny apartment in the small college town of Elm Grove, Indiana.
But efficient and independent Charlotte must also learn to accept the help of a new group of friends when she finds herself threatened by criminals who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get their hands on something of immense value hidden within Olivia's hoard of collectibles.
The Charlotte Anthony novels are traditional, character-driven mysteries whose overarching theme is how the past informs the present, and how even a small town in the American Midwest can be connected to a much larger world.
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"Intelligent, inventive, and very well written, An Uncollected Death kept me reading long into the night and enjoying every word. Keep your eye on Meg Wolfe. She's a writer to watch." Susan Wittig Albert, author of Death Come Quickly and A Wilder Rose
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"A tale of secrets, puzzles, rare books, and a woman's resilience in a time of crisis, An Uncollected Death is the perfect read for classic mystery lovers." Elizabeth S. Craig, author of Quilt Trip and Death at a Drop-In.
"What a fun debut mystery! In An Uncollected Death , author Meg Wolfe skillfully weaves together my favorite elements from both cozy mysteries and women's fiction." M. Louisa Locke, author of The Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series
About the Author
Meg Wolfe is a long-time nonfiction writer, most recently of The Minimalist Woman blog and its related self-help and cookbooks. She now focuses almost exclusively on fiction, and has written and published the Charlotte Anthony mystery series: An Uncollected Death, An Unexamined Wife, An Undisclosed Vocation, and An Uncharted Corpse.