The Ashiel Mystery: A Detective Story

When Juliet Byrne's adoptive mother dies, a confession on her deathbed shatters everything Juliet believed about her past: she was not her mother's biological child. Raised in rural England by a woman who herself had been adopted, Juliet now faces a terrifying question - who is she really? Her father, Sir Arthur Byrne, a career diplomat who married his wife years ago and adopted her daughter as his own, has been murdered, and Juliet finds herself drawn into a web of secrets that stretches back decades. Detective Gimblet takes on the case, but the answers may lie in encrypted letters, hidden messages, and the dark corridors of a Scottish castle where long-buried truths refuse to stay buried. As Juliet pieces together the cryptography left behind by her mother, she discovers that the search for her origins could cost her everything - or set her free. Aatmospheric early twentieth-century mystery that intertwines identity, inheritance, and thetreacherous complexities of family.