The Widow's Brooch: A Slow Burn Small Town Cozy Mystery with a Female Amateur Sleuth and a Bloodhound (A Holloway Antiques Mystery Book 4) - Softcover

Book 4 of 4: A Holloway Antiques Mystery

Penn, C.R.

9798192882290: The Widow's Brooch: A Slow Burn Small Town Cozy Mystery with a Female Amateur Sleuth and a Bloodhound (A Holloway Antiques Mystery Book 4)

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ISBN 13: 9798192882290

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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An invitation to appraise a fortune. A poisoned cup of chamomile. And a bloodhound who won’t stop sniffing the garden shed.

Antiques appraiser Wren Holloway has finally learned to call Palmetto Key home, so naturally her next case takes her off it. Invited to neighboring Sapelo Island to authenticate the Cortland family’s celebrated jewelry collection before a charity auction, Wren expects four quiet days of hallmarks, gem identification, and Southern hospitality with the crusts cut off. What she finds is provenance paperwork that smells like the work of a master forger she helped put away, and a sharp-eyed matriarch who hired Wren for one thing above all: the truth, however it comes out.

Then Philippa Cortland is found dead in her bed the day before she planned to make that truth public, and the family doctor is ready to call it a tired heart. Wren has read too many forged documents to accept a forged death. With the ferry gone until morning, she’s stranded in a beautiful house full of beautiful suspects: the stepson who manages the money, the assistant who inherits the collection, the rival collector with a decade-old grudge, and a fired groundskeeper who watches the gardens from the fence line.

Three islands away, Detective Cal Renner can’t cross the water to help. What Wren has is her grandmother’s loupe, a camera, a young deputy willing to listen, and eleven-year-old Barnaby, whose magnificent nose has one great case left in it. Because on Sapelo, the oleander blooms along every garden path, the paper tells prettier stories than the people, and a brooch with a princess’s past is about to go missing.

A warm, witty, fair-play Southern cozy with no gore, no cliffhangers, a slow-burn romance worth the wait, and a dog you will never forget. Perfect for readers who love Louise Penny’s Three Pines, Jenn McKinlay, and Mary Kay Andrews.

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