The Body at Bramble Cottage
(2026)(The fifth book in the Braunton Book Club Mystery series)
A novel by Morgan Isaac
Nina Bell wanted a bookshop. What she got was a wall that should not have been there.
Bramble Cottage has stood empty on Bramble Lane for as long as anyone can remember, and when the executors offer Nina first look at a house full of books, she takes the Tuesday night book club with her. Trev goes for the walls. Judith goes for the shelves. Elsie says she would rather not go at all, which is the first strange thing.
The second is what Trev finds when he taps the plaster in the back bedroom.
The remains have been there for decades. The village has a name ready before the police do: Rose Penhale, the girl who vanished from Braunton and was never spoken of again. But the truth behind the false wall is stranger than the story everyone thought they knew, and it belongs to a summer nearly fifty years gone, when a young man walked out of the village and a great many respectable people decided not to ask where.
A brother who inherited a business. A fiancée who married too soon. A solicitor who handled the paperwork and remembers none of it. And Elsie Prout, eighty-four, keeper of every secret Braunton ever had, who was here that summer, and who is now, for the first time in four books, refusing to answer Nina's questions.
Some cases are cold. This one has been waiting.
The Body at Bramble Cottage is the fifth Braunton Book Club Mystery, a warm, witty British cosy mystery for readers who love Richard Osman, Death in Paradise and M.C. Beaton. Each book stands alone. Some walls do not.
Genre: Mystery
Bramble Cottage has stood empty on Bramble Lane for as long as anyone can remember, and when the executors offer Nina first look at a house full of books, she takes the Tuesday night book club with her. Trev goes for the walls. Judith goes for the shelves. Elsie says she would rather not go at all, which is the first strange thing.
The second is what Trev finds when he taps the plaster in the back bedroom.
The remains have been there for decades. The village has a name ready before the police do: Rose Penhale, the girl who vanished from Braunton and was never spoken of again. But the truth behind the false wall is stranger than the story everyone thought they knew, and it belongs to a summer nearly fifty years gone, when a young man walked out of the village and a great many respectable people decided not to ask where.
A brother who inherited a business. A fiancée who married too soon. A solicitor who handled the paperwork and remembers none of it. And Elsie Prout, eighty-four, keeper of every secret Braunton ever had, who was here that summer, and who is now, for the first time in four books, refusing to answer Nina's questions.
Some cases are cold. This one has been waiting.
The Body at Bramble Cottage is the fifth Braunton Book Club Mystery, a warm, witty British cosy mystery for readers who love Richard Osman, Death in Paradise and M.C. Beaton. Each book stands alone. Some walls do not.
Genre: Mystery
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