The Duckmere Mysteries book1. The Duckmere, #1

In the Cotswold village of Duckmere, the most dangerous person is not the one with a weapon. It is the one with a library card, sixty-nine years of careful observation, and absolutely nowhere pressing to be. CASE ONE: The Haunting Notes - An old theatre, condemned and locked, fills with the sound of phantom piano music on quiet nights. The locals say ghost. Nell Ashby says: one reads, dear - and starts asking questions.
CASE TWO: The Ghost of the Wonderland Fair - The village's beloved fairground is dying, its head keeper has vanished into thin air, and something in the dark is making a sound that raises every hair on every arm. Everyone runs. Nell listens - and hears, beneath the horror, something unmistakably human. CASE THREE: The Strangers at Carraway House - Two gentlemen have moved into the long-empty house on the Marsh road.
They only come out at night. They speak as though every word is freshly looked up. They are learning, apparently, to eat cake. And the old house itself is not quite what it appears to be. Warm, witty, and illustrated on every other page, The Duckmere Mysteries - Book One follows retired librarian Nell Ashby, her law-graduate grand-nephew Ollie, and a rather earnest young police constable named Danny through three mysteries that begin with strange sounds and end with something far more extraordinary - and far more heartfelt - than anyone in Duckmere could have expected.