The Clearance at Cawdermere
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The inquest records how they died. The probate file records what they owned. Nell Bardsley reads both — and they never agree.
A house shut up for the better part of a year since its owner's quiet death; the inquest returned misadventure and the paperwork is immaculate. But probate valuer Nell Bardsley finds the house packed for a journey no one ever took — and one room cleared by somebody else before she arrived. Nell values the dead: she reads a life from what it owned, its provenance, its wear and its dates. Here the objects will not agree with the verdict — and only one of them can be telling the truth.
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How it begins
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The wardrobe was worth more empty than full, which was true of most things and nearly all people, and Nell Bardsley had stopped saying so out loud some years ago.
Is this your kind of book?
The Clearance at Cawdermere is the literary probate mystery — a probate valuer works a dead stranger’s house while the coroner works the death. It is written for readers who want the patient kind of crime and suspense: plotted, unhurried, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
This is where the series starts. Begin here and everything after it is in order.
The The Thrushmere Inquests in order
- The Clearance at Cawdermerefree · you are here
- The Body from Salterby$5.99
- The Sale at Marnhope$5.99
- The Open Verdict at Culverby$5.99
- The Last Tenant at Kessingholt$5.99
- The Last Verdict at Thrushmere$5.99
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