The Green Grass Remembers: A DCI Blackwell Mystery

by Livia Huntingdon-Jones

DCI Ellie Blackwell trusts the certainties of history, the clean lines of a 17th-century map. Her life is a fortress of order built against the chaos of her job. But when she's called to the scene of a wealthy developer's apparent suicide, the clues are a maddening mess of contradictions. At the heart of it a three-line Japanese poem that feels like a key to the wrong lock.

92 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 5, 2025

Reviews

[Fran Burdsall · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was really beginning to enjoy this novella and anticipate the next installment, but I got near the end and was disappointed to read almost 10 pages with exactly the same information as the previous ten pages. Aside from that, the characters and plot are solid. Well written and some interesting red herrings.

[karin whitehead · Rating 3 out of 5]

A DCI Ellie Blackwell ,a enthusiast of historical maps, puts her knowledge into solving a supposed suicide.The tycoon, Marcus Tyne is found in an apparent suicide, that is displaying a poem by a Chinese author. A complicated story line,hard to follow. I enjoyed the characters,

[Sheila Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great mystery. The two main characters are well-developed. The plot is an interesting mix of mystery and history.