A note hidden in a wall. A drowning ruled accidental. A family that has been keeping quiet about both for nearly two centuries.
When Violet Pennington finds a letter from 1840 inside the hidden compartment of her Cotswolds bookshop, she expects to uncover a piece of village history. She doesn't expect to find it connected to a body at the All Hallows' Eve fête - or to a man who came to Brambleford specifically to make sure certain documents reached the right hands before someone stopped him. The mystery of what happened at Larch Mill in 1834 has been preserved by careful people across four generations. It survived a land fraud, a family cover-up, and a hundred and ninety years of inconvenient silence. It may not survive the week.
. For readers of Richard Osman, Alexander McCall Smith, and M.C. Beaton.
