I found The Bookshop of Yesterdays while searching for anything Shakespeare-related that I could load from my library onto a Kindle to dip into easily.
Its plot involves a woman named Miranda Brooks (so we see the connection to The Tempest right away) who receives a mysterious package from her estranged uncle. Almost immediately after, she learns that he has died (that's a spoiler, but it happens in chapter two). Eventually, she traces the train of clues he leaves her back to Prospero Books (Miranda Brooks and Prospero Books, see?), the bookstore her uncle ran and she loved to go to as a child.
I'll avoid any other spoilers, but I will say that my clarion cry applies to this book: "Needs More Shakespeare!"
Apart from that, it's not terrible. And it has something to say about the relationship between Prospero and Miranda in The Tempest and Prospero Books (and its owner) and Miranda Brooks in this novel.
Let me share the opening of the mystery; you can determine whether you wish to read on.
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