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Shadows In The Herb Garden: A Cotswold Garden Mystery

Shadows In The Herb Garden: A Cotswold Garden Mystery

Drax, Kael

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798252193298
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 15 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A buried secret. A forgotten witness. A ledger someone was willing to kill for.

When Victoria Tori Ashcombe begins restoring the herb garden behind her cottage in the quiet Cotswold village of Alderwick, she expects nothing more dramatic than stubborn soil and overgrown rosemary.

Instead she uncovers human remains.

The discovery pulls Tori into a mystery that has been buried for forty-five years. The victim is Daniel Mercer, a local historian who vanished in 1978 while investigating suspicious land deals across several villages. His disappearance was quietly forgotten.

Until now.

As police reopen the cold case, Tori begins asking questions the village has avoided for decades. Old witnesses remember things they wish they had said sooner. Parish records reveal altered land transfers. And someone with influence and a spotless reputation begins to take a sudden interest in the investigation.

The deeper Tori digs, the clearer it becomes that Mercer died protecting evidence powerful people wanted erased.

Then another name surfaces.

Clara Whitford.

A young teacher who disappeared weeks after Mercer.

Now the truth behind Alderwick's most carefully buried secret is beginning to surface. And someone is determined to keep the past where it belongs.

In the ground.

Shadows In The Herb Garden is the second novel in The Cotswold Garden Mysteries, a character-driven British mystery series filled with hidden histories, quiet tension, and the secrets small villages keep for generations.

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