A Knot-Wife Mystery · Book One
Three Knots for a Gale
A tidal island. A dead man in a gale nobody forecast. And a knot-wife who swore she’d never tie another knot.
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Cozy mysteries with a touch of seaside magic
The Knot-Wife Mysteries
Stella Curnow comes home to the tidal island of Merrow Holm to bury her grandmother, the island’s last knot-wife, and stays to solve its murders with the craft she ran away from, while the knot that keeps the sea off the Holm slowly comes undone.
Where the books are set
The Saltwind Coast
A long coast of headlands, estuaries and tidal islands, in a country you won’t find on a map. There’s a telephone on the wall and a wireless in the kitchen, motor launches and a twice-weekly bus, but no mobile phones, so news still travels at the speed of gossip and the tide.
Magic here is quiet, local and half-believed. Fishermen buy wind-cords the way other people touch wood, and on Merrow Holm the knot-wife’s shop has sold them for three hundred years.
Letters from the coast
Hear when the next book is out
News of each new Knot-Wife Mystery on the day it comes out, and the occasional letter from the Saltwind Coast.