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Jean Penrose was clever, beautiful, and cruel — a collector of secrets who played games with everyone around her. Now she's dead, and half of Woodstock had reason to want her that way.
The police call it an accident. Hester Croft calls it murder.
Sharp-minded and sharp-tongued, Hester has spent a lifetime outrunning a darkness of her own. But when Jean's body is pulled from Fair Rosamund's Well on the grounds of Blenheim Palace, she can't stay quiet — not when she recognises the games Jean played, and what they cost.
Together with her oldest friend Gertie Bundle, irrepressible landlady of The Old Pyed Bull Inn, Hester begins asking the questions the police won't. What she uncovers isn't village gossip. It's something older, uglier, and more dangerous — secrets that powerful people have buried deep in the Oxfordshire soil.
And whoever silenced Jean isn't finished yet.
Cozy crime with a sharp edge. A 1950s mystery where the puzzle satisfies but the shadows linger.
Genre: Mystery
The police call it an accident. Hester Croft calls it murder.
Sharp-minded and sharp-tongued, Hester has spent a lifetime outrunning a darkness of her own. But when Jean's body is pulled from Fair Rosamund's Well on the grounds of Blenheim Palace, she can't stay quiet — not when she recognises the games Jean played, and what they cost.
Together with her oldest friend Gertie Bundle, irrepressible landlady of The Old Pyed Bull Inn, Hester begins asking the questions the police won't. What she uncovers isn't village gossip. It's something older, uglier, and more dangerous — secrets that powerful people have buried deep in the Oxfordshire soil.
And whoever silenced Jean isn't finished yet.
Cozy crime with a sharp edge. A 1950s mystery where the puzzle satisfies but the shadows linger.
Genre: Mystery
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