Whistlestop Murder

A Poppy James Cozy Mystery

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A quiet town, a ghostly whistle, and one café owner with a nose for trouble…

When a midnight train whistle echoes through Willowbrook’s sleepy streets, Poppy James—book-loving café owner and accidental sleuth—knows it’s more than a trick of the wind. Her suspicions are confirmed when Henry Caldwell, a retired railway inspector with a reputation for secrets, is found dead by the abandoned tracks, a chalk mark scrawled beside him and a crumpled scrap of paper in his hand.

Armed with her trusty beagle Midsip, glitter-obsessed best friend Nadine, and history-buff Theo, Poppy dives into a tangle of ledgers, tunnels, and old town scandals. Everyone in Willowbrook seems to have something to hide—especially the two people Henry crossed paths with just before everything went wrong: Mark Jeffries, the carpenter Henry hired to “fix” a hidden room in the old depot the night he disappeared; and Clara Benton, whose gossip column ran a blind item that outed Henry’s sealed dealings—and gave someone a reason to silence him.

As clues mount and the Circle’s shadow grows, Poppy finds herself toe-to-toe with secrets worth killing for. If she can’t piece together the truth, Willowbrook’s quiet nights may never be safe again.