Death at the Founders Banquet: A British Small-Town Cozy Mystery

About Death at the Founders Banquet: A British Small-Town Cozy Mystery

At the grand Founders Week banquet in Bramble Cross, the town is ready to celebrate its proud history. Instead, a man ends up dead in the archive vault. Clementine “Clemmie” Hart has spent long enough digging through old houses, missing papers, and carefully polished lies to know that nothing in Bramble Cross is ever as respectable as it looks.

But when the dead man is the chairman of the Legacy Trust and the first public story blames Clemmie’s late mother for the town’s probate scandals, this is no longer just another investigation. This is war. If Clemmie cannot prove what really happened, she stands to lose everything at once: Hart & Home, her place in Bramble Cross, and the truth about the mother who spent years trying to expose the very corruption now being pinned on her.

As Founders Week unfolds in a blaze of speeches, archive displays, and civic pride, Clemmie follows a trail through hidden wills, altered ledgers, and old deaths that were never accidents at all. The suspect list is full of the town’s most dangerous people: trustees, donors, political fixers, exposed heirs, and those who have spent years protecting Bramble Cross’s most carefully guarded lie. Because this time, the murder is not just about money.

It is about the first crime that started everything.