Author of the Cresthollow Bay Mysteries
Verity Browning
Warm. Witty. Dark without being grim.
A coastal town with a long memory. A reluctant journalist with a notebook. Mysteries that reward a second read.
Book Two · Preorder · 1 August 2026
The Holiday Let Murder
Every smart device in the cottage went dark on Sunday evening. The cottage kept taking notes.
Margot Finch returns in the second Cresthollow Bay mystery: a holiday-let murder, a town being quietly automated out of itself, and a kitchen that remembers every step the killer took.
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The Blueprint Murder
A body in the archive. A staging detail copied from a forgotten 1971 novel. A killer who is following a chapter outline.
The debut Cresthollow Bay mystery introduces Margot Finch: a reluctant journalist clearing out her late aunt's cottage, who finds herself untangling a death the local police want to file away too quickly.