The Case of the Missing Book

I keep a very detailed TBR list with multiple tabs, and one of those tabs is dedicated to books printed outside the US that may or may not come to the US in the future. Every Saturday morning, I read Blackwell’s newsletter and add books I want to that list, and then I go through the Waterstones app and see which books they’re promoting. Every few months, I do a Blackwell’s shipment for UK books, using that list to choose what I want to order.

A few weeks ago, I saw that Janice Hallett would have two books coming out in 2025. One was called A Box Full of Murders. It would come out on February 6, 2025. The other was called The Killer Question, and it only listed the year — 2025. I typed them both into the spreadsheet with her last name and moved on.

This week, I was looking at the spreadsheet and decided to check whether the publisher had updated the listing with a concrete publication date. But when I searched for the title, it had disappeared. It was no longer on the Blackwell’s site. I couldn’t find it listed… anywhere. It vanished from book sites. I can’t find it on the Wayback Machine. My only note is the mysterious title in my spreadsheet added on August 12 at 7:44 am.

It’s a mystery about the queen of mysteries.