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Hattie Rowland came to Hedgerow Parva for quiet.
A small cottage. A walled garden that needs more stubbornness than skill. A clean start after a career spent untangling other people's problems. Then her builder cracks open an old potting shed base and finds a body tucked beneath it like a secret someone forgot to move.
The police call it historic. The village calls it tragic. Hattie calls it deliberate.
Because the soil is littered with brass tags stamped with numbers, not plant names. Because the village library's allotment records have a page missing with a tear that's too neat to be accidental. Because the people most determined to "keep things respectful" are also the ones gripping the tightest on keys, committees, and what gets written down.
When a smug heritage donor turns up with a photographed page from a missing parish annex ledger, Hattie thinks she finally has leverage. Then he ends up dead in the library corridor during a fire alarm that should never have gone off, at a time the cameras should never have stopped.
Now Hattie has two bodies, one village determined to tidy the story, and a killer who does not need a weapon if they can control schedules, access, and paperwork.
And Bracken, the dog who adopted her, has developed a bad habit of finding what other people bury.
Murder in the Walled Garden is the first book in The Parish Ledger Mysteries, a British village cozy mystery packed with secrets, sharp humour, and a retired investigator who refuses to accept a story that looks too perfect.
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