Bunny Hop Heist

About Bunny Hop Heist

A Cotswolds estate. A legendary topiary garden. An Easter egg hunt.

And a body among the hedges. Sheila Cooper arrives at Thornfield House to find forty-three acres of sculpted hedges, a maze she hasn't mapped yet, a groundskeeper who speaks in careful understatements, and a topiary form along the east wall that the previous sitter described, simply, as unsettling. The village of Barrowmere is preparing for its annual Easter egg hunt — twelve zones, four hundred plastic eggs, and the first-ever opening of the estate's private Knot Garden.

The owner, Genevieve Harding, built this garden over thirty years. She doesn't open it lightly. Then a retired solicitor is found dead in the garden during the hunt, and Sheila discovers that the real search at Thornfield was never about chocolate eggs.

It was about a trust document, a boundary dispute, and thirty years of unfinished business buried in the estate's legal foundations. Max alerts at the east wall. The evidence leads through cut ivy, loosened stonework, and a groundskeeper whose quiet service hid a grievance older than the garden itself.

Some hedges were planted to hide more than the view.