A Properly Unfinished Death
A Murder the Village Agreed to Forget

In the picture-perfect Cotswolds village of Little Dinsmere, everything is exactly as it should be—at least, that’s how it’s recorded.

Beatrice Plum, a retired schoolteacher with a sharp eye for detail and an even sharper memory, has spent decades observing the quiet rhythms of village life. But when a curious phrase begins to surface in everyday conversation—one that shouldn’t belong to anyone still living—she finds herself drawn into a mystery long since smoothed over by time and politeness.

Years ago, local historian Edwin Mercer died in what was ruled a simple accident. A fall. Unfortunate, but tidy. The sort of thing a village like Little Dinsmere prefers not to dwell on.

But Beatrice has never trusted tidy endings.

As she follows a trail of altered records, misplaced memories, and carefully managed truths, she uncovers a hidden network of loyalties and quiet deceptions stretching back decades. In a place where reputation is everything and history is curated as carefully as a garden, asking the wrong questions can be… inconvenient.

And someone has already proven just how far they’re willing to go to keep the past from being corrected.

Perfect for fans of classic British cozy mysteries, A Properly Unfinished Death is a gentle yet gripping tale of secrets, 'polite' society, and the quiet persistence of truth—where the sharpest weapon is not force, but observation.

Because in Little Dinsmere, murder isn’t loud.

It’s simply… overlooked.