Book 1 · A Restoration Mystery
A Murder in Oaxaca
Oaxaca · Mexico
Book one takes June to a crumbling courtyard in Oaxaca — and a marigold garden planted over something the town has spent decades refusing to remember.
How do you tend a garden grown from a grief nobody will name?
Coming soon. Here’s where June lands next.
A magazine commission sends June to restore the courtyard garden of a faded Oaxacan casa, its marigold beds gone wild, just as the city fills with candlelight for Día de los Muertos. The family who owns it are warm, generous — and united in their determination that one particular corner of the garden stay exactly as overgrown as it is.
Full blurb to come. The postcard list gets the cover reveal, the opening chapter, and the release date before anyone else in the world.
- Slow Burn
- Amateur Sleuth
- Buried Grief
- Body in a Charming Place
- Forced Proximity
- Found Family
- A Garden With Secrets
- Second Chance at Love
why this place
Oaxaca in the days around Día de los Muertos is the most alive place I’ve ever stood in — marigolds everywhere, and grief worn openly in the streets. The courtyard, the family and the crime are invented; the way a city holds its dead close is not.
If you love Verity Bright, T.A. Williams or Jenny Colgan, you’ll feel right at home here.
