Books, Boats and Murder (Dreaming Spires Romantic Mysteries #7)

Books, Boats and Murder (Dreaming Spires Romantic Mysteries #7) by Maxine Barry is a Cozy Mystery release out on November 11, 2026.

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Books, Boats and Murder (Dreaming Spires Romantic Mysteries #7) Release Date: November 11, 2026

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She came to the river to hide. She didn’t expect to fall for the man guarding her.

From multi-million bestselling author Faith Martin, writing romantic mysteries as Maxine Barry.

Gisela Ashley likes her life quiet. Then she becomes the key witness against a crime family.

In court, she names one of the robbers. Outside, his mother promises she’ll pay. Gisela needs to disappear.

She books three weeks on a narrowboat on the Thames. It’s peaceful, she’ll keep moving, and no one will find her.

But the boat has been double-booked and Gisela finds herself stuck with Keefe Ashleigh, a widowed ex-special-forces soldier, with old scars and a habit of noticing everything.

What starts as a frosty first meeting soon thaws when Keefe chases an intruder off the boat. Now he won’t let Gisela out of his sight.

As the narrowboat heads for Oxford, lazy golden days turn into something neither of them planned. But Gisela can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. And the danger is closer than she thinks . . .

Perfect for readers who love an English riverside setting, a puzzle that keeps them guessing, a wounded hero and a heroine who is stronger than she looks.

For fans of R.L. Killmore’s Cinnamon Falls Mysteries, Faith Martin, Nora Roberts, Pretty Little Liars and deadly mysteries withaddictive romances.

This book was previously published as River Deep and An Oxford Trial.

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Genre: Cozy Mystery, Romance

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