Murder on the Tarka Trail
(2026)(The fourth book in the Braunton Book Club Mystery series)
A novel by Morgan Isaac
The ride was for charity. The brakes were for somebody else.
Every Tuesday night, the Braunton Book Club meets at Bramble & Brew to argue about crime novels over cake. Nina Bell, who owns the café, has three hundred riders' lunches to make for Saturday's charity cycle ride along the Tarka Trail, and every penny of the money sitting in somebody else's bank account.
That somebody is Richard Bellamy: coach firm owner, ride organiser, and the most generous man in North Devon. By Saturday afternoon he is dead below the embankment at the Chivenor bend, and the village is calling it a terrible accident.
Trev Nance, retired builder and definitely not a member, has looked at the brake cables. Cables fray. They do not part like that.
Now the Bellamy Trust's accounts are frozen, Nina's money is locked inside them, and half of Braunton thinks she should never have got into bed with Bellamy in the first place. The young mechanic who serviced the bike has told the police four different times. The rival coach owner is glad the man is dead and says so. The widow has found a one-way ticket. And PC Sam Keene has been taken off the case, because the woman seen shouting at Richard in the car park the night before is his sister.
Judith has opened a new tab in the notebook. Maggie remembers where somebody stood at a funeral in 1988. Elsie has asked for ten minutes off. And Nina, who reads people for a living, is starting to understand that the person she cannot read is the one who has never once flinched.
Murder on the Tarka Trail is the fourth full-length novel in the Braunton Book Club Mysteries, a warm, witty British cosy series for readers who loved The Thursday Murder Club and Death in Paradise. A fair-play whodunnit, a café you will want to visit, and a village where everybody knows everybody and almost nobody is telling the truth.
Tuesday night was for cake, crime fiction, and occasionally, actual murder.
Genre: Mystery
Every Tuesday night, the Braunton Book Club meets at Bramble & Brew to argue about crime novels over cake. Nina Bell, who owns the café, has three hundred riders' lunches to make for Saturday's charity cycle ride along the Tarka Trail, and every penny of the money sitting in somebody else's bank account.
That somebody is Richard Bellamy: coach firm owner, ride organiser, and the most generous man in North Devon. By Saturday afternoon he is dead below the embankment at the Chivenor bend, and the village is calling it a terrible accident.
Trev Nance, retired builder and definitely not a member, has looked at the brake cables. Cables fray. They do not part like that.
Now the Bellamy Trust's accounts are frozen, Nina's money is locked inside them, and half of Braunton thinks she should never have got into bed with Bellamy in the first place. The young mechanic who serviced the bike has told the police four different times. The rival coach owner is glad the man is dead and says so. The widow has found a one-way ticket. And PC Sam Keene has been taken off the case, because the woman seen shouting at Richard in the car park the night before is his sister.
Judith has opened a new tab in the notebook. Maggie remembers where somebody stood at a funeral in 1988. Elsie has asked for ten minutes off. And Nina, who reads people for a living, is starting to understand that the person she cannot read is the one who has never once flinched.
Murder on the Tarka Trail is the fourth full-length novel in the Braunton Book Club Mysteries, a warm, witty British cosy series for readers who loved The Thursday Murder Club and Death in Paradise. A fair-play whodunnit, a café you will want to visit, and a village where everybody knows everybody and almost nobody is telling the truth.
Tuesday night was for cake, crime fiction, and occasionally, actual murder.
Genre: Mystery
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