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Provenance of Lies
(2026)(The fifth book in the Nora Blackwell Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Dianne Harman
A brooch with no history. A family with everything to hide.
When Nora Blackwell buys a tray of estate jewelry at a Millbrook sale, she expects nothing more than a few pretty pieces for her shop, Second Acts Vintage. But tucked beneath a fold of velvet is a dragonfly brooch unlike anything she's ever handled. It’s Art Nouveau silver, Baltic amber, and has an engraving that doesn't belong to the family selling it: For M., who kept everything. J.K. 1911.
Her black Labrador, Gatsby, knows there's something wrong before she does. He always does.
What starts as a provenance question becomes a search for a woman erased from the record. She was a Viennese silversmith's wife, sponsored to safety in 1930s New England, and never seen again. As Nora follows the thread from church archives to a historian's cluttered files to a locked box no one wants opened, the past stops staying quiet. A break-in. A death ruled natural until it isn't. And a family that has spent three generations mistaking silence for mercy.
The deeper Nora digs, the clearer it becomes. Someone in Millbrook has been keeping this secret a very long time, and they're prepared to keep it a while longer, whatever that costs.
Warm, atmospheric, and quietly devastating, Provenance of Lies is the fifth Nora Blackwell mystery. It’s a story about the things we inherit, the things we hide, and the objects that refuse to stay forgotten.
Perfect for readers who love their cozy mysteries with real heart, real history, and one very good dog.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When Nora Blackwell buys a tray of estate jewelry at a Millbrook sale, she expects nothing more than a few pretty pieces for her shop, Second Acts Vintage. But tucked beneath a fold of velvet is a dragonfly brooch unlike anything she's ever handled. It’s Art Nouveau silver, Baltic amber, and has an engraving that doesn't belong to the family selling it: For M., who kept everything. J.K. 1911.
Her black Labrador, Gatsby, knows there's something wrong before she does. He always does.
What starts as a provenance question becomes a search for a woman erased from the record. She was a Viennese silversmith's wife, sponsored to safety in 1930s New England, and never seen again. As Nora follows the thread from church archives to a historian's cluttered files to a locked box no one wants opened, the past stops staying quiet. A break-in. A death ruled natural until it isn't. And a family that has spent three generations mistaking silence for mercy.
The deeper Nora digs, the clearer it becomes. Someone in Millbrook has been keeping this secret a very long time, and they're prepared to keep it a while longer, whatever that costs.
Warm, atmospheric, and quietly devastating, Provenance of Lies is the fifth Nora Blackwell mystery. It’s a story about the things we inherit, the things we hide, and the objects that refuse to stay forgotten.
Perfect for readers who love their cozy mysteries with real heart, real history, and one very good dog.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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