The Harbour Festival Murder: A Havenwick Mystery: 2

A harbour festival. A locked signal house. A murder rooted in a secret Havenwick has protected for thirty-nine years.August in Havenwick should bring bunting, brass bands and boats bright with festival flags. Instead, harbourmaster Nicholas Vale is found dead inside the locked signal house-hours before a speech that promised to expose the truth behind a celebrated lifeboat rescue.Vale leaves behind a missing envelope, a cryptic voicemail and a donated gansey whose unfamiliar stitches may preserve a message from 1987. The town has spent decades honouring one hero and shaming another. Someone is determined that the official story remains untouched.Claire Harlow has only just begun rebuilding her life after the murder that shattered the Tuesday Table. She has no wish to become Havenwick's investigator. But when the evidence looks too perfect and another woman is pushed towards blame, Claire, Diana, Maya and Ruth follow the pattern from festival coffee cups to forgotten photographs-and into the harbour's deepest loyalties.To identify Vale's killer, Claire must solve an impossible room and decide whether exposing the past will heal Havenwick or destroy what remains.The Harbour Festival Murder is the second Havenwick Mystery: a warm, intricately plotted British cosy mystery of friendship, old loyalties, false heroes and the deadly cost of keeping a town's secrets. It can be enjoyed as a complete standalone mystery.