Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family's strange legacy. But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm's withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave.
Lizzy wants nothing more than to sell the farm and return to her life in New York, until she discovers a journal Althea left for her-a Book of Remembrances meant to help Lizzy embrace her own special gifts. When she reconnects with Andrew Greyson, one of the few in town who believed in Althea's innocence, she resolves to clear her grandmother's name.
But to do so, she'll have to decide if she can accept her legacy and whether to follow in the footsteps of all the Moon women who came before her.
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A body that's been submerged in water undergoes a different kind of decomposition; harsher in some ways, kinder in others - or so I've been told.
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(Lake Union Publishing, 1 August 2020, 397 pages, e-book, bought from @AmazonKindle #AmazonFirstReads)
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I'd never heard of the author before so had no idea what to expect with this book. I chose it because I liked the title and the blurb sounded intriguing. The cover made me think the book was a romance or something. I loved this book and the cover does not do it justice, it's much darker than I was expecting. It reminded me of Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, the Moon Girls are very much like the women in Hoffman's book, outsiders in their town, seen as witches as they have special skills and not welcome by anyone. This is a murder mystery as Lizzy determines to solve the murder of the two girls whose bodies were found in the pond at Moon Girl Farm and clear her grandmother and the family name forever. You can imagine how well her probing and questioning goes down with the suspicious locals. I loved this book. Another author has been added to my TBR list.
