The Widow of Willowby Manor
(2026)(The fourth book in the Penrose Mystery series)
A novel by J Jasper North
When Lydia Willowby is found dead at her family's grand estate overlooking Stillwater Lake, the question of inheritance draws relatives from across the Pacific Northwest almost before the grief has settled. Then a painting disappears -- a valuable canvas from the manor's gallery -- and suspicion follows naturally enough. Theft. Family. Motive.
Bookseller and investigator Ari Penrose, alongside café owner Clair Finch and archivist Sophia Eden, arrives expecting to untangle a straightforward estate mystery. Instead, they find themselves tracing the footsteps of a woman who spent her final years quietly preserving a question she never fully answered: who gets remembered, and who gets erased?
Atmospheric, unhurried, and layered with the quiet weight of things long kept private, The Widow of Willowby Manor is a mystery about one missing painting -- and the disappeared life it was always meant to protect.
Genre: Mystery
Bookseller and investigator Ari Penrose, alongside café owner Clair Finch and archivist Sophia Eden, arrives expecting to untangle a straightforward estate mystery. Instead, they find themselves tracing the footsteps of a woman who spent her final years quietly preserving a question she never fully answered: who gets remembered, and who gets erased?
Atmospheric, unhurried, and layered with the quiet weight of things long kept private, The Widow of Willowby Manor is a mystery about one missing painting -- and the disappeared life it was always meant to protect.
Genre: Mystery
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