Ten Years: A Senior Sleuth Cozy Mystery

Margaret Ellis has kept a record for ten years that no one asked her to keep - an archive of every quiet cruelty her coastal community has learned to see, and it has never once been proven wrong.Then a subpoena arrives with her name on it.A letter to her oldest friend sits unfinished for weeks in her desk drawer, its last line refusing to be written. And an old card in Margaret's own hand - the very first one she ever wrote - starts to look less like a finding and more like a wound she has never had the courage to check.Somewhere down the coast, a man she has never met is about to become the reason she finally looks.A courtroom moves to tear the archive apart, and Margaret must do the one thing she has never let anyone do to her work: hand it over, blind and unwatched, and wait to learn what it says about her.Her tenth anniversary was meant to be a celebration. It may instead be a reckoning - for the archive, and for the woman who built it believing she could never become the thing she'd spent a decade trying to stop.