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What The Attic Kept: A Laurel Gap Cozy Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Laurel Gap Mysteries, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She clears out the houses of the dead. This time, the house had something to say.
Delia Tolliver has spent twenty-two years emptying other people's houses. Give her an hour in a dead woman's kitchen and she'll tell you when she stopped driving, who came to see her, and whether she was happy. It's a living, it's the family business, and in Ashcombe County there is always another house.
Then Orena Buchanan falls down her own stairs at eighty-nine, the county calls it an accident, and Delia is hired to clear the farmhouse at the head of Cade Hollow.
In the attic, under sixty-five years of newspaper, she finds a child's suitcase. Packed. Labeled. Never opened.
Sherry Radford, August 1961.
Everyone in this county has always said Sherry Radford ran off to Knoxville that summer. She was sixteen.
The suitcase says she never got on the bus - and the dust says somebody moved it three weeks ago.
With her mother's fifty years of county memory, her sister's courthouse records, and her son's stubborn way with a screen, Delia starts pulling a thread that four generations of a family have paid good money to leave alone. What she doesn't know is that the woman helping her clear the kitchen has already decided how far this can be allowed to go.
A warm, wry small-town mystery with no gore, no swearing, and a solve you can catch if you're paying attention.
Book One of The Laurel Gap Mysteries. Each book is a complete mystery - no cliffhangers.
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