The Key Returned at Low Tide

Nell Calder came home to sell a repair shop. Before her first day is over, she has a key to a murder scene.

Her late aunt Ruth left her a shop full of unfinished jobs, a flat above Rope Lane, and a town that assumes she will stay. Nell gives herself two weeks to put everything in order. Then retired surveyor Edric Fenn returns an old brass key and asks her to meet him at the harbor's tide office. He says he owes Ruth an explanation.

When Nell arrives, Edric is dead.

A disputed redevelopment has divided Gannetwick, and Edric managed to anger people on both sides. While Detective Sergeant Leena Ward follows the evidence, Nell finds an unsettling discrepancy in Ruth's ordinary repair records. The more carefully she looks, the harder it becomes to separate the town's acts of kindness from the secrets they protect.

With her aunt's memory at stake and old friends choosing sides, Nell must decide how much truth she can bear to uncover in the place she meant to leave.

The first complete mystery in the Gannetwick Mysteries series, featuring a practical amateur sleuth, an English coastal town, and a community whose loyalties run deep.

Author: K. R. Gannet. Publisher: KARUU AB. Language: English. Format: downloadable EPUB ebook.

The text of this novel was generated using OpenAI ChatGPT. The cover artwork was generated using OpenAI image generation tools. K. R. Gannet is a publishing pen name used by KARUU AB.

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