A Murder in the Orange Court — placeholder cover, art not yet revealed

Coming · A Restoration Mystery

A Murder in the Orange Court

Marrakech · Morocco

June restores the bitter-orange courtyard of a Marrakech riad — where the household’s oldest story and its newest guest don’t quite add up.

What grows in a courtyard everyone swears has always been empty?

Coming soon. June’s third garden waits in Marrakech.

Behind an unremarkable door in the medina, a riad wraps around a courtyard of bitter-orange trees that the family insists were planted by a grandfather nobody can quite describe. June is there to bring the garden back. The cat, at least, is honest with her.

Full blurb to come. The postcard list gets the cover reveal, the opening chapter, and the release date first.

  • Slow Burn
  • Amateur Sleuth
  • Hidden Courtyard
  • Body in a Charming Place
  • Forced Proximity
  • A Cat Who Knows
  • Old Money Secrets
  • Second Chance at Love

why this place

The riads of Marrakech turn their backs on the street and hide whole gardens inside — cool, secret, scented with orange blossom. It’s the perfect architecture for a family with something to keep quiet.

If you love Verity Bright, T.A. Williams or Jenny Colgan, you’ll feel right at home here.

Keep travelling with June

While I write, you’ll get one postcard a month: a photo from a real garden behind the series, the strange true story I found there, and a line on how the writing’s coming along. When the first story is ready, you’ll read it before anyone else in the world.

The first fifty on the list get an actual paper postcard, mailed from my desk in Australia.