Provenance of Lies: Nora Blackwell Cozy Mystery Series

About Provenance of Lies: Nora Blackwell Cozy Mystery Series

A brooch with no history. A family with everything to hide. When Nora Blackwell buys a tray of jewelry at a Millbrook estate sale, she expects a few pretty pieces for her shop, Second Acts Vintage.

But tucked beneath a fold of velvet is a dragonfly brooch unlike anything she has ever handled: Art Nouveau silver, Baltic amber, and an engraving that doesn't belong to the family that is selling it: For M., who kept everything. J.

K. 1911. Her black Labrador, Gatsby, knows something is wrong about the brooch before she does.

He always does. The provenance question becomes a search for a Jewish woman erased from all records. She was a Viennese silversmith's wife, sponsored to safety in 1930s New England, and never seen again.

Nora follows the thread from church archives to a local historian's cluttered files, to a locked box no one wants opened, and soon the past stops staying quiet. A break-in. A death ruled to be from natural causes until it isn't.

A family that has spent three generations mistaking silence for mercy. Someone in Millbrook has kept this secret a long time, and is prepared to keep it, whatever the cost, including murder. Warm and quietly devastating, Provenance of Lies is the fifth Nora Blackwell mystery in the series that deals with the things we inherit, hide, and cannot keep forgotten.