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A Jar Full of Secrets
When Penelope Marsh leaves her former life behind for a quiet cottage in the Cotswold village of Nettlecombe Parva, she expects nothing more complicated than a fresh start and a kitchen to call her own. She finds both - and something she wasn't expecting at all. A jar of strawberry preserve from the Saturday market. A seal that isn't quite right. And folded inside, a document that a meticulous, recently deceased man named Reginald Foss needed the right person to find.
Penelope is that person. She just doesn't know it yet. As autumn deepens into winter and her kitchen shelf fills with the careful record of a year's preserving, Penelope finds herself drawn into the quiet, layered life of a village that holds its history close - its land disputes and old covenants, its loyalties and its silences, its remarkable people and the one devastating secret at its heart. With the help of a sharp-tongued village elder, a precise solicitor, a cautious detective, and the archive of a man who documented everything, she begins to understand what Reginald Foss knew, what he feared, and what it cost him.
A Jar Full of Secrets is a cozy mystery for readers who like their intrigue slow-built and their atmosphere rich - a story about attention and patience, about what careful people leave behind, and about the life that assembles itself around you when you finally arrive somewhere and stay.
Penelope is that person. She just doesn't know it yet. As autumn deepens into winter and her kitchen shelf fills with the careful record of a year's preserving, Penelope finds herself drawn into the quiet, layered life of a village that holds its history close - its land disputes and old covenants, its loyalties and its silences, its remarkable people and the one devastating secret at its heart. With the help of a sharp-tongued village elder, a precise solicitor, a cautious detective, and the archive of a man who documented everything, she begins to understand what Reginald Foss knew, what he feared, and what it cost him.
A Jar Full of Secrets is a cozy mystery for readers who like their intrigue slow-built and their atmosphere rich - a story about attention and patience, about what careful people leave behind, and about the life that assembles itself around you when you finally arrive somewhere and stay.
