Murder in the Cottage Borders: Borders and Buried Secrets

About Murder in the Cottage Borders: Borders and Buried Secrets

In Larkbourne, the roses grow neatly. So do the lies. I’m Pip Sloane, newly arrived in the English countryside with a battered heart, a bargain cottage, and a garden that looks like it’s been fighting a private war for years.

The hedge on my boundary line isn’t just overgrown. It’s a fault line. Then a woman is found dead in my cottage borders.

The village calls it a tragic fall. An unfortunate accident at the worst possible time, right before Open Gardens weekend, when everyone wants their lanes tidy and their reputations spotless. But the scene is too clean.

The timing is wrong. And the story gets polished before the police have even finished asking questions. Unlucky for Larkbourne, I’ve just taken over The Parish Paper.

With Biscuit, my rescue spaniel who sniffs out trouble faster than I can spell it, and Martha, the librarian with a steady hand and access to the village archives, I start pulling at loose threads. DS Tom Harker would prefer I stop. I can’t.

Not when records go missing. Not when pages look replaced. Not when the staple holes don’t line up.

Murder in the Cottage Borders is a clean, clever English countryside cozy mystery packed with garden rivalries, small-town secrets, and a paper trail someone is desperate to erase.