The Orchid Mystery - Paperback

by Nancy L. Mangan (Author)

Cambridge, 1977 is a city built on the bones of history, its courtyards hushed and its truths half-buried. When a respected professor is found dead in the gardens of St. Michael's College with an orchid placed beside him with unsettling care, DCI Jonathan Rievaulx and DS Emily Carter are called into a world where tradition hides corruption and intellect masks ambition.

As they peel back the layers of college life, murmurs of a secret group, The Fellowship, begin to surface. A powerful network of academics, its influence stretches far beyond the college gates. The murder, it seems, is only the beginning.

As the summer term draws to a close and loyalties shift like shadows across weathered stone, Rievaulx and Carter find themselves caught within a tangle of bitter rivalries, whispered betrayals, and truths buried deep beneath centuries of silence. But in a world where power is inherited and secrecy is sacrosanct, discovering the truth may demand a price far greater than either is prepared to pay. (166 words)