I just published a new novella on Amazon Kindle (see here). If you love murder mysteries, Agatha Christie novels, or Miss Marple stories in particular, you might really enjoy this two to three hour read.

Here is the official description…

The quiet garden village of St Mary Mead was once home to the most famous string of murders in British history. Clara West remembers her great-aunt Jane only as a kindly old woman in an Edinburgh garden, and first met “Miss Marple” through the lightly fictionalised accounts made famous by Agatha Christie. Now, as a postgraduate criminology student, Clara returns to St Mary Mead to study the long-term impact of violent crime on a small rural community—and slowly uncovers more bodies buried in the village’s troubled past than even Christie imagined.

What Clara finds in her aunt’s neatly labelled files and in the memories of those who survived reveals subtle hints that point toward something unthinkable. The emerging truth threatens not just a cherished literary legend but an entire village’s sense of itself, exposing a disturbing story that must not be told, yet should not be withheld.

The Bodies Buried in St Mary Mead is both an homage to Miss Marple and a critical re-examination of her most famous cases, told in the quiet, deceptively gentle register of a vintage English village mystery. It asks what happens when a modern criminologist is willing to question the official accounts, and what it costs to pull up the roots of a myth that has comforted generations.

Meticulously crafted and AI-assisted, this novella uses contemporary tools for research, fact-checking, and tonal authenticity, bringing a modern intelligence to the history we thought we all knew.

Hope you enjoy it!