When retired schoolteacher Beatrice Plum discovers a decades-old diary hidden behind a loose stone in her garden wall, she expects perhaps a forgotten love story or at worst, a village scandal involving someone’s prize marrow.
Instead, she finds an account of a ‘tragic accident’ at the long-defunct Hawthorne & Finch Button Factory, an accident that reads suspiciously like murder.
As Beatrice begins to decipher the diary’s final cryptic entries, she finds herself navigating village fêtes, polite smiles, and the watchful eyes of the Women’s Institute. The factory may have closed thirty years ago, but its legacy still lingers behind manicured hedges and perfectly trimmed lavender borders.
Because someone in this picturesque Cotswolds village has spent decades believing the truth would stay buried.
They’re about to learn that Beatrice Plum never leaves a puzzle unsolved.
Genre: Mystery
Instead, she finds an account of a ‘tragic accident’ at the long-defunct Hawthorne & Finch Button Factory, an accident that reads suspiciously like murder.
As Beatrice begins to decipher the diary’s final cryptic entries, she finds herself navigating village fêtes, polite smiles, and the watchful eyes of the Women’s Institute. The factory may have closed thirty years ago, but its legacy still lingers behind manicured hedges and perfectly trimmed lavender borders.
Because someone in this picturesque Cotswolds village has spent decades believing the truth would stay buried.
They’re about to learn that Beatrice Plum never leaves a puzzle unsolved.
Genre: Mystery
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