Bessette, Alicia

Alicia Bessette writes the Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery Series which started in May 2022 and is set in North Carolina.  It features Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks. When Callie is laid off from her reporting job, she returns to her hometown of Cattail Island and lands a gig at the local bookstore—the same one where she found comfort after her mother died.