The Missing Gardener

di Arla Jones (Autore)

Magentabooks LLC, 2026

In the quiet village of Brambleford, some stories are never meant to be read twice. When bookseller Violet is drawn into an old parish record and a long-buried land dispute, she expects a local mystery — not a history of fraud, disappearance, and a death that has shaped the village for decades. In 1963, a gardener drowned in the mill pond at Carrow estate. The verdict was misadventure. The file was closed. The village moved on. But nothing was ever as simple as it seemed. A crooked land sale. A missing will. A name erased from memory and replaced by a rhyme children still whisper without knowing why. And then Walter Fenn, the quiet gardener who has lived unnoticed in Brambleford for thirty years, vanishes. As Violet and detective Morrison begin to piece together the past, they uncover a truth that refuses to stay buried — one that links old guilt to present danger, and forces them to ask who benefits when history is rewritten… and who is willing to protect it at any cost. But some truths don't just reveal the past. They reach into the present. And someone in Brambleford is still listening.

• Autore: Arla Jones
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Magentabooks LLC
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235846111