A dead man in the lower meadow. A stolen document.
And a boundary survey that three generations of one family
have been trying to place in the right hands — until now.

Mira Ashworth has been in the Eden Valley for two years.

She knows its rhythms, its silences,
the particular way it holds things until it can't hold them any longer.

When a solicitor from Leeds is found dead on Stonefall land in the summer of 1903,
she recognises the shape of it immediately...

Someone needed him silenced...

...stopped before he could deliver what he was carrying.

The documents are gone.

The stone he came to find is still there.

The boundary dispute at the centre of his visit reaches into the
county surveyor's office, the magistracy, and a family of surveyors
who have been trying to correct an old wrong across sixty years.

Someone with authority — and a great deal to lose — has been keeping it quiet.

Philip Vane, newly established in Carlisle chambers, is assembling the legal case.

Constable Wren has her notebook.

And Mira has her attention, which has never yet let her down.

The ground in the Eden Valley holds its history carefully.

The question is whether it will give this particular piece of it up in time.

A warm, precise cozy historical mystery set in Edwardian Westmorland —
for readers who like their atmosphere earned and their justice patient.

What the Ground Holds is Book Four of The Stonefall Mysteries.