Murder at Barclay Meadow

Rosalie Hart's husband has left her, and she has taken refuge at Barclay Meadow, the farm she inherited on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is a place to be quiet in, until a young woman's body is found in the river that runs along the property and the authorities settle quickly on accidental drowning.

Rosalie, an outsider still learning her neighbors, cannot let it go. She enrolls in a writing class, joins the rhythms of the town, and works her way toward what actually happened to Megan Johnston, discovering that a small community's willingness to move on can itself be a kind of concealment.

The first Rosalie Hart mystery is a quiet, atmospheric cozy — a farm, a river, a woman rebuilding a life, and a death that will not stay closed.