Death on the Dunes
(2026)(The second book in the Braunton Book Club Mystery series)
A novel by Morgan Isaac
A photographer who saw too much. A village that would rather he hadn't.
Tuesday night was for cake, crime fiction, and occasionally, actual murder.
Nina Bell's café book club has barely recovered from its first real case when a dog walker finds a body out in Braunton Burrows. The dead man is Miles Avery — wildlife photographer, charmer, and collector of other people's secrets — who'd spent the summer hinting that his camera had captured something that could ruin half the village.
Now the camera is missing. And half the village is acting like it.
The gossip says it was an affair. The gossip is very sure. But Judith's notebook keeps filling with questions the gossip can't answer: why did a locked wartime road carry an engine in the dark that night? Why is the county's fiercest conservation officer refusing to say where she was? And why does the most generous man in the parish keep reaching for his chequebook?
While PC Sam Keene and DS Yeo work the official channels, the book club does what it does best — reads the room, checks the coats, and listens to what Braunton says over the second pot of tea. Because in a village where everyone is hiding something, the trick isn't finding a secret. It's finding the one person who never flinches.
A twisty, warm-hearted, fair-play village mystery — all the clues on the page, no gore, no swearing, and cake throughout.
Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Death in Paradise, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin. Death on the Dunes is Book 2 in the Braunton Book Club Mysteries and can be read as a standalone — though the tea flows better in order.
Pull up a chair at Bramble & Brew. The book club will budge along.
Genre: Mystery
Tuesday night was for cake, crime fiction, and occasionally, actual murder.
Nina Bell's café book club has barely recovered from its first real case when a dog walker finds a body out in Braunton Burrows. The dead man is Miles Avery — wildlife photographer, charmer, and collector of other people's secrets — who'd spent the summer hinting that his camera had captured something that could ruin half the village.
Now the camera is missing. And half the village is acting like it.
The gossip says it was an affair. The gossip is very sure. But Judith's notebook keeps filling with questions the gossip can't answer: why did a locked wartime road carry an engine in the dark that night? Why is the county's fiercest conservation officer refusing to say where she was? And why does the most generous man in the parish keep reaching for his chequebook?
While PC Sam Keene and DS Yeo work the official channels, the book club does what it does best — reads the room, checks the coats, and listens to what Braunton says over the second pot of tea. Because in a village where everyone is hiding something, the trick isn't finding a secret. It's finding the one person who never flinches.
A twisty, warm-hearted, fair-play village mystery — all the clues on the page, no gore, no swearing, and cake throughout.
Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Death in Paradise, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin. Death on the Dunes is Book 2 in the Braunton Book Club Mysteries and can be read as a standalone — though the tea flows better in order.
Pull up a chair at Bramble & Brew. The book club will budge along.
Genre: Mystery
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