A Parcel for the Dead: Cozy Village Mystery

A parcel addressed to a woman who has been dead for twelve years is strange enough. What's inside is worse.When the mysterious package arrives on Alderwick High Street, postmaster Stan Preece knows immediately that something is wrong. Evelyn Mercer has been dead for more than a decade, yet someone has sent her a child's mitten, an old photograph, a silver bracelet engraved with the name Lucy, and a note demanding that she finally tell the truth.Grocer Marnie Bell has barely recovered from the last murder to shake Alderwick, but curiosity has a way of finding her. The parcel appears to be connected to the disappearance of eighteen-month-old Lucy Harcourt nearly forty years earlier-a case the town has long since consigned to history.Then one of the women in the photograph returns to Alderwick.By the following morning, she is dead.As Marnie and her High Street friends begin pulling at the threads of an old secret, they uncover a story built on good intentions, devastating choices, and a lie that changed more than one family forever.Someone has spent decades making sure the truth about Lucy Harcourt stays buried.And now that the parcel has arrived, they're willing to kill to keep it that way.A Parcel for the Dead is the second book in the High Street Mysteries, a charming British cozy mystery series filled with small-town secrets, suspicious neighbours, loyal friends, and murder hiding behind the shopfronts of Alderwick.