Murder at the Harvest Lights: A Village Harvest Cozy Mystery

About Murder at the Harvest Lights: A Village Harvest Cozy Mystery

At Thornleigh’s Lantern Harvest, the whole village gathers beneath the lights. Then the man behind the new development scheme is killed in front of them all. District nurse Hester Finch has more at stake in this case than ever before.

If the sale goes through, several of her elderly patients will lose their homes, Foxglove Lane will be torn apart, and the district route she fought to rebuild may mean nothing. When Sebastian Quill dies after a public cider toast, the death looks at first like a terrible festival accident. But Hester is not convinced.

Too many people wanted Quill silenced: tenant farmers facing ruin, orchard owners buried in debt, council men with too much to hide, estate heirs desperate for cash, and one family whose name is tied to the land more deeply than anyone wants to admit. Then Hester uncovers a clue that shifts the case entirely. This was never just a fight over development.

It was about a false boundary, a buried secret on the old mothers’ home grounds, and something hidden in the land itself that powerful people have spent years keeping out of sight. Now Hester must catch a killer before the truth is covered over for good.