Book 3 · A Restoration Mystery
A Murder at the Nutmeg Grove
Penang · Malaysia
On a Penang spice estate, June restores a century-old nutmeg grove — and finds the estate’s tidy official history growing over something far less tidy.
Who does a garden really belong to, a hundred years on?
Coming later. June travels east, to Penang.
A heritage spice estate wants its historic nutmeg grove restored in time for a centenary. June’s brief is simple; the estate’s history, it turns out, is anything but. And the resident water monitor has a habit of turning up wherever the ground’s been recently disturbed.
Full blurb to come. The postcard list hears about it first.
- Slow Burn
- Amateur Sleuth
- Colonial Ghosts
- Body in a Charming Place
- Forced Proximity
- A Garden With Secrets
- Monsoon Mood
- Second Chance at Love
why this place
Penang’s old spice estates are impossibly lush, and impossibly layered — every generation planted over the last. Standing in one during a downpour, you can feel exactly how much a place can bury and keep growing anyway.
If you love Verity Bright, T.A. Williams or Jenny Colgan, you’ll feel right at home here.
