Murder at Bramble & Brew
(2026)(The first book in the Braunton Book Club Mystery series)
A novel by Morgan Isaac
Tuesday night was for cake, crime fiction, and — just this once — a body in the lane.
A cosy Devon village. A café worth killing for. And a book club that cannot leave a good mystery alone.
When Nina Bell came home to Braunton, she poured her divorce settlement into one small café and one brave idea: a Tuesday night book club, with strong tea, good cake, and the finest amateur opinions in North Devon.
Barely a month in, it's working. Then Giles Rooke arrives.
The property developer wants to buy up half the village — starting with the building that houses Bramble & Brew. He's polished, ruthless, and universally loathed. So when he turns up dead in the lane behind the café, on book club night, nobody is exactly grieving.
The trouble is, Nina had the loudest reason of anyone to want him gone. And no alibi but a kettle.
As the police circle and the village picks sides, Nina's fellow book-clubbers quietly close ranks:
A cosy Devon village. A café worth killing for. And a book club that cannot leave a good mystery alone.
When Nina Bell came home to Braunton, she poured her divorce settlement into one small café and one brave idea: a Tuesday night book club, with strong tea, good cake, and the finest amateur opinions in North Devon.
Barely a month in, it's working. Then Giles Rooke arrives.
The property developer wants to buy up half the village — starting with the building that houses Bramble & Brew. He's polished, ruthless, and universally loathed. So when he turns up dead in the lane behind the café, on book club night, nobody is exactly grieving.
The trouble is, Nina had the loudest reason of anyone to want him gone. And no alibi but a kettle.
As the police circle and the village picks sides, Nina's fellow book-clubbers quietly close ranks:
- Judith, who has read every murder mystery ever written and fully intends to apply them
Maggie, who knows where every skeleton in Braunton is buried
Trev, who reads a crime scene the way a builder reads a wall
and Elsie, who has been keeping the village's oldest secrets for eighty years
Because somebody dressed that scene to look like village fury. Somebody who knew exactly which door to leave open — and exactly whose name to leave lying beside the body.
Every clue is already on the table. The trick is seeing which one matters… before the wrong person takes the blame.
Murder at Bramble & Brew is the utterly charming first book in The Braunton Book Club Mysteries — a warm, witty, fair-play whodunnit you can solve right alongside the club. No gore, no grimness. Just cake, comfort, community, and one beautifully hidden killer.
Perfect for readers of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club, and the timeless puzzles of Agatha Christie.
Put the kettle on. Book club is about to get deadly.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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