Low Water at Lock Fourteen (The Monday Puzzle Club Mysteries)
A dead man behind barred doors. Nine herons in the wrong place. And a retired lock keeper nobody thought to ask.
For forty-one years, Thurstan Pickersgill kept the twenty-one locks of the Sedgeworth Flight. Retirement hasn't stopped him. At seventy-seven, he still walks the canal before dawn, recording water levels in a notebook nobody wants to read.
Most of the town thinks he spends too much time talking to herons. Thurstan thinks the town should pay more attention to what the herons are standing in.
When wealthy marina owner Lyall Brearley is found dead aboard his showpiece narrowboat, every door is barred from the inside. The police suspect a tragic stove accident-until their attention turns to a locksmith from the Monday Puzzle Club. The dead man owed him money. Now he's under arrest.
But Thurstan noticed something before anyone found the body: nine herons standing in a side pound that should have been far too deep for their feet.
Someone moved the water. And water leaves evidence.
To clear his friend, Thurstan must bring together the Puzzle Club's logic grids, antique locks and old maps-with occasional interference from a greyhound whose chief talent is knocking things over. He must also ask for help from the one person he has barely spoken to in five years: his daughter, a Birmingham barrister with every reason to refuse.
The police have a suspect. Thurstan has a notebook, an inconvenient observation, and forty-one years of knowing when something on his canal is wrong.
Low Water at Lock Fourteen opens the Monday Puzzle Club Mystery series, set among the narrowboats, lock cottages and church halls of an English Midlands town where the older residents know rather more than anyone suspects.
A clean, witty cozy mystery with a complete fair-play solution, no graphic content, no explicit scenes and no bad language.
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