The House at Elder Carr
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“She never sent one letter — she only had to keep them, against the day someone would come.”
For thirty-four years, an old woman on the marsh wrote letters to a sister no one else remembered. When Edith Vexley dies, her daughter finds the record of a lifetime, and the reason her cousin Peter drowned eight weeks before her, in water he was terrified of, in a death everyone agreed was an accident. Now a Detective Chief Inspector, Honor Whitling knows an accident near water when she sees one.
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How it begins
‘A family is only ever as good as the thing it agrees not to say. Some of us stopped agreeing.’ — Edith Vexley, in a letter never sent, 1990
Edith Vexley began the first letter on the night she understood that no one was coming for her sister, and she began it because there was nothing else left in the house that was hers to do.
Is this your kind of book?
The House at Elder Carr is gothic coastal crime — six coastlines, six houses, and one long record of what a family was willing to bury. 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 Book Three of Tide House Mysteries. Each book closes its own case, so it can be read on its own — but the series is built to be read in order, and starting at The House at Winterkeep means the connections land the way they were written.
The Tide House Mysteries in order
- The House at Winterkeepfree
- The House Below the Tide$5.99
- The House at Elder Carr$5.99 · you are here
- The House on the Salt$5.99
- The House on the Sound$5.99
- The House on the Lough$5.99
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