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Six coasts. Six houses. One detective who came to finish a case that broke her.
“A body on the moor. A house with a wing no one is allowed to enter. And a detective who came north carrying a grief of her own.”
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A Probate Mystery
“The inquest records how they died. The probate file records what they owned. Nell Bardsley reads both — and they never agree.”
Nell Bardsley is a probate valuer — forty-one, and no time for hunches. She reads a life from its value, its provenance, its wear and its dates, and begins exactly where other mysteries end: with the estate of the dead.
For readers of Ann Cleeves · Elly Griffiths · Susie Steiner
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