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The Coroner's Inquest: A 1920s English Country House Mystery (A Clara Hart Mystery Series Book 2)
Paperback
Series: A Clara Hart Mystery, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The truth is in the record. Unless someone removes it first.
Two months after Ashgrove, Clara Hart has taken a room in a boarding house in Thornfield - suitcase under the bed, packed since December, the careful discipline of not looking back. She has survived. She intends to keep doing so.
Then the summons arrives.
Edward James Ashgrove - found dead on the grounds of his family estate - is to be examined in open court at last. Clara travels to Broughton expecting an accounting. What she finds is a county that knows how to make truth behave: a clerk discovered dead three nights before the inquest opens, the records office sealed, originals removed from official files, and witnesses who take the stand with rehearsed corrections. In the gallery, a London barrister watches with the patience of a man who already knows the verdict.
Clara still has her carbon copies. Six sets, out in the world, made with a nurse's exactness. But paper can be removed and replaced - and so can the people who insist on reading it aloud.
The Coroner's Inquest is a taut historical mystery set in 1924 England - for readers of Jacqueline Winspear, Frances Brody, and Anna Mazzola.
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