What Was Kept: A Brambleford Cozy Mystery

The hidden compartment in Violet Pennington’s bookshop has already given up one secret. She didn’t expect it to have kept another.

A note, dated 1840, written in a precise copperplate hand. A witness who could not be silenced and could not be heard. A man drowned in a millpond, and a verdict returned by the inquest was wrong.
In Brambleford, the past has a habit of staying put. The Larch family still runs the mill. The solicitor firm that handled their affairs still handles them. And someone has just been killed to ensure that what Carmel Valliard wrote down one October morning nearly two centuries ago stays exactly where it has always been: out of sight, and out of court.

Perfect for readers of Richard Osman, Alexander McCall Smith, and M.C. Beaton.