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Woodstock, 1953. A body is pulled from Fair Rosamund's Well, in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. The police call it an accident. Hester Croft calls it murder.
Sharp-minded, sharper-tongued, and carrying a darkness she has spent a lifetime outrunning, Hester knew Jean Penrose. She knew what Jean did to people. And she does not believe Jean drowned by accident.
The wife who came home from a quarrel with blood on her sleeve. The doctor's wife who claims a fox woke her, and who walked in from the garden fully dressed. The young man with a secret Jean had no business knowing.
She takes what she has seen to Gertie Bundle.
Landlady of half thetown's secrets, on speaking terms with the other half, and who has never once been told to mind her own business and obeyed.
Gertie has the gossip. Hester has the questions.
Between them, they have the makings of an investigation the Oxfordshire police don't want, and are about to get anyway.
A 1950s mystery in the English market town tradition. Sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, and quietly merciless.
Genre: Mystery
Sharp-minded, sharper-tongued, and carrying a darkness she has spent a lifetime outrunning, Hester knew Jean Penrose. She knew what Jean did to people. And she does not believe Jean drowned by accident.
The wife who came home from a quarrel with blood on her sleeve. The doctor's wife who claims a fox woke her, and who walked in from the garden fully dressed. The young man with a secret Jean had no business knowing.
She takes what she has seen to Gertie Bundle.
Landlady of half thetown's secrets, on speaking terms with the other half, and who has never once been told to mind her own business and obeyed.
Gertie has the gossip. Hester has the questions.
Between them, they have the makings of an investigation the Oxfordshire police don't want, and are about to get anyway.
A 1950s mystery in the English market town tradition. Sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, and quietly merciless.
Genre: Mystery
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