The Blackruth Wedding Murder: A Larkspur End Cozy Mystery

About The Blackruth Wedding Murder: A Larkspur End Cozy Mystery

A grand wedding. A dead patriarch. And a carefully planted clue pointing straight at Blackthorn Bindery.

Phoebe Vale should be celebrating. Blackthorn Bindery has landed its biggest commission yet: custom stationery, vow books, and wax seals for the society wedding of the season at Blackruth Hall. One flawless weekend could secure Phoebe’s struggling business, quiet the village gossip, and prove she is more than the woman who found bones in a wall.

Then the groom’s father is found murdered in the rose maze after the rehearsal dinner. Worse, a foxglove-stamped wax seal from Phoebe’s own workshop is discovered near the body. With Blackthorn’s reputation under threat, payment frozen, and half of Larkspur End already sharpening its suspicions, Phoebe has no choice but to start asking dangerous questions.

Because behind Blackruth Hall’s polished wedding silver and perfect flower arrangements lies a family built on shaky paperwork, altered dates, and old secrets no one can afford to expose. As Phoebe digs into chapel registers, family Bibles, missing legal copies, and a trail of lies dressed up as respectability, she realizes this murder was never just about stopping a wedding. It was about protecting an identity, an inheritance, and a version of the past someone is willing to kill to keep.