Historian Rose McHugh, having escaped city life for the Southern Highlands, is happy working at her local museum job, with a side hustle as a historical researcher for various media projects. When her museum is gifted a local mansion’s historically significant artefacts, Rose sees this as an opportunity to launch a new exhibition on local history, but – as always – she gets more than she bargained for. What starts as a curious search into hidden costume jewellery turns into suspicions that a serial killer may have been at work during the Second World War. The hunt will see her job, her friendships, and maybe even her life on the line.

Rose is utterly charming, her friends become the readers’ friends, and her quest to see a historical wrong righted will have you gripping the edge of your cosy armchair by your cottage’s wood fire.