A dead man in the river. A solicitor from Carlisle who arrived the day before.
And a land claim that someone was willing to kill to protect.

Mira Ashworth has spent her first winter at Stonefall learning the valley —
its rhythms, its silences, the particular way its people keep things to themselves
until they can't any longer.

She has earned a place here.

She knows which frost means business and which frost is merely making a point.

Then a stranger is found in the river meadow,
and the valley's silence becomes something else entirely.

The dead man was carrying historical documents.
The land claim he represented threatens everything Agnes Harker's family
has worked for generations.

And the man who sent him — a scheme thirty years in the making,
built on a genuine grievance and a great deal of calculated harm —
is not finished with the Eden Valley.

Constable Wren has her notebook.

Mira has her attention.

Between them, they have the makings of something the valley has not had
for a long time: the truth.

But the truth, in this valley, has a way of arriving at considerable cost.
Can Mira trace the thread from a body in the river back to the men who put him there?

And do it before the land Agnes Harker's family has farmed for a hundred and sixty years
is taken from her by paperwork, precedent, and a lie buried in a legal archive?

An Edwardian cozy mystery for readers who like their atmosphere atmospheric,
their puzzles genuinely puzzling, and their found families worth finding.

What the River Carries is Book Two of The Stonefall Mysteries.