Book 1: In Saint-Flour, Emma is a young, dynamic bookseller, creator of an association for the defense of independent bookstores, the The Real Booksellers Society. Adrien Darcy, completely unaware of the literary heritage his last name represents, is a sports journalist who had a bicycle accident that kept him from working for a few months. Determined to work again, the editor-in-chief of La Montagne asks him to lead the investigation into mysterious murders committed against booksellers: three had been murdered over the past three months but the police were acting as if the murders were not connected. While initially reluctant, Adrien accepts the challenge. First clue: the three victims belonged to the The Real Booksellers Society. Who is hiding behind this association? Who holds a grudge against its members to the point of eliminating its members? This is what Darcy intends to find out with the help of Emma! A declaration of love for books and those who bring them to life: booksellers.

Book 2: Emma Darcy, the unforgettable owner of the Livres Penseurs in Saint-Flour, asks her young and whimsical niece Miranda to manage her bookstore in her absence. The latter, a neophyte but a devout reader, will be assisted by a “flying bookseller», someone who goes from one bookstore to the next to work for owners who go away. However, the man who shows up at the bookstore is not the person he claims to be because the real employee was killed by a reckless driver as he left the train station. In fact, Miranda was at the scene of the murder and saw the impostor take something out of the victim’s pocket. The two will team up to track the bookseller’s killer and, as part of the investigation, search for a lost manuscript written by Rimbaud.

An associate professor Sylvie Baron has embarked on writing regional detective novels, determined to renew the genre. A successful author of many works, most of which take place in today’s Cantal, a successful bet for the one who has become the queen of French cosy crime!