The Honeycomb Ledger of Bramblewick

About this book

In mist-veiled Bramblewick, where hives hum protective charms and moonlit herbs taste truth, the enchanted Honeycomb Ledger vanishes from Maren Quill's charm-bakery days before the Friendship Festival. Maren, a 42-year-old amateur detective with ink-stained fingers and a talent for misplacing inconvenient facts, insists she is only a helpful neighbor while the village's favors, recipes, and promises begin to dim. With steadfast beekeeper Torin Hale and sharp-witted librarian Sera Lin, she follows crystallized honey, a golden bee-wing, and contradicting witnesses from mill, ferry, and schoolyard. Alternating chapters return twelve years earlier, when Maren first arrived fleeing a half-forgotten capital scandal and helped catalog the original ledger. As dates shift and a recipe appears that she swears she never baked, the present mystery presses Maren toward the hardest clue of all: her own edited memory. To keep mischief sprites from turning the festival into gentle humiliation and to keep old friendships from fraying, Maren must decide whether honesty can be as warming as bread, tea, and honey.

Book details

Genres:

Cozy Mystery, Fantasy, Amateur Sleuth

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-22

Content rating:

PG