June Rowan Restoration Mysteries
For readers who’d rather be somewhere else.
Cozy garden mysteries set in beautiful, real, lived-in places — a slow-burn romance, and a secret buried in the same soil June’s been asked to dig up.
the premise, in one breath
A once-burnt-out journalist turned garden restorer flies to old estates around the world — and keeps finding the flowerbeds and the secrets buried in the same soil. Curated escapism, one gentle murder at a time.
Meet June & her world
Starting over at forty, with dirt under her nails.
June Rowan restores forgotten gardens for a magazine called Provenance — and can’t stop noticing when a place’s official history doesn’t match what’s actually growing in the ground.
Along the way: Edmund, a photographer who keeps turning up where she doesn’t expect him; Constance, who’s held The Jacaranda House together for decades; and Percy, a cockatoo with opinions.
a taste of where it begins
“The road narrowed, then dropped toward the water, and there it was: a guesthouse standing white and wide-verandahed at the end of a gravel drive, jacaranda trees flowering purple in a long avenue leading up to it, petals already thick enough on the ground to leave violet smears under her tyres.”
— A Murder on the Jacaranda Coast
Reading lists
While you wait, somewhere to read.
Curated shelves of cozy mysteries, picked for a particular place and mood — starting with 5 Mystery Books Set in Mexico. Five gentle whodunits set across Mexico, from San Miguel de Allende to Puerto Vallarta — each with a note on how cozy it really is.
The series
Ten books, one decade, June across the world.
Beginning on the Jacaranda Coast. Covers reveal one at a time — the postcard list always sees them first.
