The Orchard of Borrowed Branches
Prudence Fox · A warm orchard-set mystery with a proper puzzle
If you liked The Thursday Murder Club, start here.
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About this book
A graft is the last witness to a gardener’s murder, but its living clues are already healing over in a retirement-village orchard.
After a gardener is murdered among the village’s shared fruit trees, a retired costume cutter studies rare varieties growing on borrowed branches. Tool marks, spreading disease and trees shared across property lines turn ordinary orchard work into a precise puzzle of grudges and dependence. The evidence is alive, changing and inconveniently exposed to weather and human hands, whilst a merchant plans to make the communal orchard his private brand.
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- Prudence Fox
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- 58,133 words
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