MURDER AT THE CAR PARK: A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery

A grand opening. A golden ribbon. A dead man in Bay One.When Lady Catherine Ashbury cuts the ceremonial ribbon at Ashbury-on-Wye's gleaming new Municipal Car Park on a crisp October morning in 1932, she expects speeches, weak tea, and a graceful exit. What she finds instead is Roland Fitch - prominent solicitor, notorious difficult man - stone dead in his immaculate grey Bentley, hands folded, hat still perfectly on, and a faint, sweet smell in the air that she can't quite place.The police call it a cardiac event and close the case by lunchtime.Catherine calls it murder.She has five suspects, two photographs, a torn corner of paper that shouldn't exist, and a Sergeant from Gloucester named Drummond who finds her both invaluable and professionally inconvenient. There is also Aristotle - her ancient, opinionated tabby cat - who is sitting on her suspect list again and does not appear to be moving.As Catherine works her way through the town's hidden grievances, she begins to see something beneath the surface of Ashbury-on-Wye's cheerful civic pride: a quiet, patient wrong that has been building for years, waiting for someone to finally look at it properly.The question isn't just who poisoned Roland Fitch. It's what he did to deserve it.The deeper Catherine looks, the more she discovers that the most dangerous secrets in a small town are never the dramatic ones. They're the ones kept in locked drawers, coded in legal language, and carried in silence by people no one thinks to look at twice. When the truth finally surfaces, it won't be clean. It won't be comfortable. But it will, at last, be seen.Murder at the Car Park is an atmospheric, fair-play cozy mystery set in the Welsh Marches - a mystery of quiet secrets, unexpected discoveries, and justice found beneath the surface.For readers who enjoy classic British mysteries, thoughtful amateur sleuths, and stories where justice is complicated, Lady Catherine Ashbury returns to Ashbury-on-Wye. Follow her as she unravels hidden secrets, uncovers forgotten truths, and brings clarity to the mysteries others have left behind.

Pagina's: 389, Paperback, Independently published