The Missing Gardener

In the quiet village of Brambleford, some stories are never meant to be read twice.

When bookseller Violet is drawn into an old parish record and a long-buried land dispute, she expects a local mystery - not a history of fraud, disappearance, and a death that has shaped the village for decades.

In 1963, a gardener drowned in the mill pond at Carrow estate. The verdict was misadventure. The file was closed. The village moved on.

But nothing was ever as simple as it seemed.

A crooked land sale. A...