Death by Inheritance
(2026)(The first book in the Penny Monroe Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Diane Scotland
Some inheritances come with a fortune. Others come with a body.
Everyone thought Constance Rutherford came to Hatchwell Hollow to claim a fortune.
They were wrong.
She came looking for the truth.
Three weeks later, she was dead.
The town calls it an accident. Penny Monroe sees something everyone else has missed. The victim wasn't making enemies; she was uncovering decades of stolen family secrets, missing heirlooms, and a fraud hidden inside one of the town's oldest estates.
Now Penny and her sidekick French Bulldog, Mabel, must finish the investigation Constance never lived to complete.
Because the closer she gets to the truth...the more dangerous the inheritance becomes.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Everyone thought Constance Rutherford came to Hatchwell Hollow to claim a fortune.
They were wrong.
She came looking for the truth.
Three weeks later, she was dead.
The town calls it an accident. Penny Monroe sees something everyone else has missed. The victim wasn't making enemies; she was uncovering decades of stolen family secrets, missing heirlooms, and a fraud hidden inside one of the town's oldest estates.
Now Penny and her sidekick French Bulldog, Mabel, must finish the investigation Constance never lived to complete.
Because the closer she gets to the truth...the more dangerous the inheritance becomes.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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