{"title":"The Alderwick Archive Mysteries","description":"\u003cp\u003eMunicipal archivist Mara Venn trusts only the evidence. Inside the stone walls of Old Registry Hall, she finds that some of Alderwick's records were made wrong on purpose, and some of them refuse to stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart with Book 1, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-name-beneath-the-ink-an-alderwick-archive-mystery-book-1\"\u003eThe Name Beneath the Ink\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-name-beneath-the-ink-an-alderwick-archive-mystery-book-1","title":"The Name Beneath the Ink — An Alderwick Archive Mystery, Book 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome records are wrong. Some were made wrong on purpose. And some refuse to stay buried.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunicipal archivist Mara Venn has built her life around one rule: trust the evidence. A record means only what it can prove, and where a document came from matters as much as what it says. Inside the cold stone walls of Old Registry Hall, among the minute books, property cards, and quiet paperwork by which the town of Alderwick decides what did and did not happen, every fact is where it belongs and answerable to her if it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen surveyor Julian Cross walks in out of the rain on a Monday morning, carrying a survey tube and a question about Resolution 58-12, a 1958 council measure tied to Venn Court and the old Lantern Court parcel. The resolution's wording doesn't match the ground. The boundary runs through buildings that were still standing years later. And the page itself is wrong in ways only an archivist would notice: a little too bright under the reading lamp, a second staple hole, a crescent of torn fiber at the binding edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHours later, Julian is found dead inside the archive, leaving behind one chilling message:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone certified a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Mara picks up Julian's investigation, she uncovers missing files, altered records, conflicting property boundaries, and evidence of a deception buried for nearly seventy years. Worse, every thread seems to lead back toward her own family's name and the small brick storefronts the Venns have proudly owned for as long as anyone can remember. Mara has always believed the discipline of distrust has to be applied evenly, to a stranger's deed and to her own name alike. Now she will have to prove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut at exactly 12:13 every night, something impossible happens. Old documents begin revealing words that should no longer exist. And in the archive's glass cabinets, the reflection of a young woman appears: a woman whose name seems to have been erased from history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMara cannot photograph what she sees. She cannot submit it as evidence. She cannot explain it. The dead may show her where to look, but the living still have to prove what happened. With the help of her sharp-eyed colleague Tess Marlowe and the steady, skeptical Detective Jonah Pike, Mara follows the paper trail through accession registers, custody records, typewriter analysis, and a pasted-over strip of paper that may hold the truth an entire town agreed to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a killer hidden among the living and the dead pointing toward a forgotten injustice, Mara must uncover what really happened in 1958 before another piece of the truth disappears for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause some lies do more than survive. They become part of the official record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE NAME BENEATH THE INK is Book One of The Alderwick Archive Mysteries, a clean, cozy historical mystery series where every case is solved by real evidence and every ghost only points the way. Perfect for readers who love small-town secrets, old documents, quiet libraries and archives, a touch of the supernatural, and a heroine who refuses to let a convenient lie stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clever, fair-play mystery with clues hidden in the paperwork\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA haunting that points toward the truth without replacing it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA warm small-town setting, from Old Registry Hall to the Lantern Cup across the street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo graphic violence and no explicit content\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story continues in Book Two, THE LEDGER OF STATION NINE: a sealed 1927 transit ledger records a station that officially never existed. No map or council record acknowledges Station Nine. But one notation remains: SERVICE RESUMED.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen the file. Question the ink. 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Some were made wrong on purpose. And some refuse to stay buried.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunicipal archivist Mara Venn has built her life around one rule: trust the evidence. A record means only what it can prove, and where a document came from matters as much as what it says. Inside the cold stone walls of Old Registry Hall, among the minute books, property cards, and quiet paperwork by which the town of Alderwick decides what did and did not happen, every fact is where it belongs and answerable to her if it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen surveyor Julian Cross walks in out of the rain on a Monday morning, carrying a survey tube and a question about Resolution 58-12, a 1958 council measure tied to Venn Court and the old Lantern Court parcel. The resolution's wording doesn't match the ground. The boundary runs through buildings that were still standing years later. 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