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In post-war London, Gabriel Book, a literary enthusiast and bookseller, combines his day job with his favorite hobby — helping solve knotty murder cases. Although happily married to his best friend, Trottie, Book is a gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal. When a new assistant, Jack, arrives at the bookshop, it soon becomes clear his appointment wasn’t as random as it at first seems.

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Mr Kind stands behind the curved desk of a hotel

'Bookish' Recap: Episode 6

Gabriel tries to deduce who poisoned Victor Orr at the Walsingham Hotel, and if he or some exiled princesses were the intended target. 

Felix sits in a suit at a table with a cup of tea

'Bookish' Recap: Episode 5

As a man connected to Trottie is poisoned at a hotel where Jack has found a new job, Gabriel's connection to Jack's father is…

Billy stands under a boom on a film set

'Bookish' Recap: Episode 4

After another death during the filming of a movie, Gabriel deduces who is responsible, and whether the two deaths are even related…

Sandra Dare looks at Stewart Howard

'Bookish' Recap: Episode 3

A movie is filming outside Book's when an extra suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances.

A crowd of people stand in and around a bomb crater in front of an abandoned building

'Bookish' Recap: Episode 2

Gabriel believes the discovery of skeletons at a bomb crater is related to an apparent suicide, and sets out to prove it. 

Gabriel Book holds up a chess piece for Inspector Bliss to see

'Bookish' Recap: Episode 1

Gabriel Book sells, yes, books – but he also helps investigate crimes in immediate postwar London, while also harboring secrets of…