Tommy Ash finds a humming brass key in the river mud, stamped with the initials S.W. It fits the tack locker in the boatyard's old shed, and inside the locker waits a fifty-year-old secret: a ship's log, half a nameplate, and an unsent letter. Hester Bell, tea-shop keeper and reluctant reader of tea leaves, follows the symbols, a hand letting go, a door with no handle, to the truth about Silas Venn, the boatbuilder who left Willowford the week the cash box went missing. Someone in town has carried the story for fifty years. Someone else has carried the shame.
The Brass Key is the second book in The Tea Leaf Mysteries, a five-part cozy fantasy mystery series about starting over, paying attention, and the family you find. Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
