Cozy Mystery Paranormal 1920s Cornwall
Ben Carrow
The quiet ones always know.
Cornwall always knew. The soil has a long memory.
Thea Penrose is starting to listen.
Cornwall, 1923.
In July, the lavender farms above the Penwith cliffs exist at the edge of what can be explained. The growing season is brief and the work is relentless — cut too early and the oil is thin; cut too late and the season is gone. The sea comes off the cliffs in gusts, underneath the warmth, a reminder that this particular piece of Cornwall has always known things.
Thea Penrose cuts at exactly the right moment. She always has.
Meet Thea Penrose.
Thea Penrose runs her farm the way she does everything: carefully, precisely, and with a particular attention to what others miss. She grows lavender and prepares medicines for the village. She keeps excellent records. What she does not do, as a rule, is involve herself in other people's business.
Until the business arrives uninvited and leaves a body in her barn.
"When the lavender said now, I cut." — Thea Penrose, Strangled With Lavender
About Ben Carrow.
Ben Carrow writes from the land. The Thea Penrose mysteries are set in a 1920s Cornwall that rewards attention — where the soil remembers things that people have learned to forget, and the quiet ones always know what actually happened.