The Orchard of Borrowed Branches
Prudence Fox · Warm ensemble crime rooted in orchard work
If you liked The Thursday Murder Club, start here.
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About this book
A murdered gardener’s last witness is a graft already sealing over, and a retired costume cutter has days to decipher it.
Rare fruit survives on borrowed branches in a community for retirees, until a gardener is murdered among the shared trees. A former costume cutter traces tool marks, plant disease and connections crossing property lines before weather or human hands alter the evidence. With a merchant pressing to turn the communal orchard into a private brand, solving the crime may carry a bittersweet cost for the residents and the trees they rely on.
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Paperback: 204 pages
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- Prudence Fox
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- 58,133 words
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- 3 hours, 53 minutes
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- English
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