title: Groundbreaking Murder: A Darling Valley Cozy Mystery
author:  Cassie Page 
description: Cassie Page lives in San Francisco where she contemplates numerous ways to kill people without getting caught.
zlib_text: THE DEATH CHAMBER
  
  Lesley Thomson
  
  
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  Beneath the beauty
  
  lurks something bad...
  
  June, 1977
  
  As night falls, seventeen-year-old Cassie Baker leaves Winchcombe and takes
  her usual short-cut down a moonlit country lane. She never makes it home. With
  no body, and no evidence, she’s just another teenage runaway.
  
  December, 1999
  
  A manhunt is launched for a missing girl, Bryony Motson. The search leads
  Cotswold police to an ancient burial site outside Winchcombe. Here, inside a
  stone chamber, are the remains of Cassie Baker. Bryony is never found.
  
  June, 2018
  
  Stella Darnell, cleaner and private detective, moves to the countryside to
  so