Murder at Margrave Graveyard
(2026)(The fifth book in the Gertie Goodspell's Midlife Mystery series)
A novel by Hetty Hexley and Janet Butler Male
Gertie Goodspell's best friend Marigold wanted a home of her own.
Unfortunately, she got a gnome of her own too.
Her new cottage in Margrave Village has crooked beams, questionable wallpaper, a garden that backs onto the graveyard, and one deeply unsettling garden gnome beneath the lilac bush.
Lady Clawdia, our posh talking cat, is not impressed.
But when Miles Renshaw, the polished and thoroughly unpleasant man who lost out at auction, arrives at Marigold's housewarming party and threatens to take the cottage from her, even the gnome becomes the least of her worries.
Before he's eaten a sausage roll, Miles is dead in the churchyard – with Marigold's gnome beside him.
With suspicion settling far too close to home, Gertie Goodspell must untangle old secrets, village gossip and one very nervous vicar before Marigold loses more than her cottage. But Reverend Finch is hiding something, Nerys Bloom's church flowers are arranged with terrifying discipline, and Lady Clawdia has no intention of letting murder interfere with her standards.
Or her smoked salmon.
A warm, witty British cosy mystery with magic, mayhem, friendship and a superior cat.
Genre: Fantasy
Unfortunately, she got a gnome of her own too.
Her new cottage in Margrave Village has crooked beams, questionable wallpaper, a garden that backs onto the graveyard, and one deeply unsettling garden gnome beneath the lilac bush.
Lady Clawdia, our posh talking cat, is not impressed.
But when Miles Renshaw, the polished and thoroughly unpleasant man who lost out at auction, arrives at Marigold's housewarming party and threatens to take the cottage from her, even the gnome becomes the least of her worries.
Before he's eaten a sausage roll, Miles is dead in the churchyard – with Marigold's gnome beside him.
With suspicion settling far too close to home, Gertie Goodspell must untangle old secrets, village gossip and one very nervous vicar before Marigold loses more than her cottage. But Reverend Finch is hiding something, Nerys Bloom's church flowers are arranged with terrifying discipline, and Lady Clawdia has no intention of letting murder interfere with her standards.
Or her smoked salmon.
A warm, witty British cosy mystery with magic, mayhem, friendship and a superior cat.
Genre: Fantasy
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