Murder Is Binding

Description for MURDER IS BINDING by Lorna Barrett:

Stoneham, New Hampshire, was a dying town until community leaders invited booksellers to open up shop. Now, its streets are fined with bookstores--and paned with murder...

When she mooed to Stoneham. city slicker Tricia Miles was met with friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore. she was met with friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed with a kitchen knife. the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased--and the locals think that someone is Tricia. To clear her name. Tricia will have to take a page out of one of her own mysteries-- and hunt down someone who isn't killing by the book...

This is #1 in A Booktown Mystery.