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The Meridian Society
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 7 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The invitation said: private retreat. The brochure didn't mention the body.
When travel journalist Nora Fielding accepts a commission to document a discreet Cornish gathering, she expects champagne, cliffside views, and enough material for a glossy spread. She's been playing it safe for two years - ever since the story that ended her career, the source who recanted, the silence that followed. One feature. Nothing that can go wrong.
Then she finds Mrs. Delia Marsh dead on the terrace at sunrise. Glass in hand. Dressed for a party that ended hours ago.
The Meridian Society doesn't officially exist. Its members - a charming treasurer, an iron-composured social secretary, a retired judge with thirty years of buried secrets, an influencer who photographs everything, an academic who shouldn't be here, and an estranged daughter who doesn't yet understand why the dead woman's face looks so familiar - are all, without exception, lying about something. With a storm shutting down every route off the island, Nora has a choice: wait for the police, or start asking questions that no one wants answered.
She starts asking.
But as Nora digs deeper into the web of blackmail, embezzlement, and long-buried grudges surrounding the Society's inner circle, she begins to suspect something impossible: that Mrs. Marsh didn't just leave behind enemies. She left behind something else entirely. Something arranged, deliberate, and addressed - if Nora is reading this correctly - specifically to her.
What does the dead woman know that nobody else does?
Darkly comic, compulsively readable, and laced with enough wit to make you feel guilty for laughing, The Meridian Society is a mystery with a twist that will make you want to start over from the very first page.
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