A Clara Hart Mystery The Coroner's Inquest: A 1920s English Country House Mystery (A Clara Hart Mystery Series Book 2), Book 2, (Paperback)

<p><b>The truth is in the record. Unless someone removes it first.</b></p><p>Two months after Ashgrove, Clara Hart has taken a room in a boarding house in Thornfield - suitcase under the bed, packed since December, the careful discipline of not looking back. She has survived. She intends to keep doing so.</p><p>Then the summons arrives.</p><p>Edward James Ashgrove - found dead on the grounds of his family estate - is to be examined in open court at last. Clara travels to Broughton expecting an accounting. What she finds is a county that knows how to make truth behave: a clerk discovered dead three nights before the inquest opens, the records office sealed, originals removed from official files, and witnesses who take the stand with rehearsed corrections. In the gallery, a London barrister watches with the patience of a man who already knows the verdict.</p><p>Clara still has her carbon copies. Six sets, out in the world, made with a nurse's exactness. But paper can be removed and replaced - and so can the people who insist on reading it aloud.</p><p><i>The Coroner's Inquest</i> is a taut historical mystery set in 1924 England - for readers of Jacqueline Winspear, Frances Brody, and Anna Mazzola.</p>

• A Clara Hart Mystery The Coroner's Inquest: A 1920s English Country House Mystery (A Clara Hart Mystery Series Book 2), Book 2, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798258217875
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-04-30
• Page Count: 174