The Undercover Bookshop

Newly-moved to the English Cotswolds, Gemma Brown finds a job at the village’s general store and acceptance into a community she soon considers family. With a sharp eye and lively mind, molded by her insatiable love for detective novels, Gemma quickly catches the eye of the local police constable, Harry Charles, and helps him solve cases over pints or sherries at the local pub.But when Gemma, determined to learn all the “skills” she missed out during a childhood ravaged by WWII, asks the village’s star baker, Ursula Beurton, to give her baking lessons, she starts to notice things that belie the woman’s image as a typical housewife. Is Ursula hiding something or is Gemma’s imagination running away with her?Yet Gemma knows she does not imagine the two-way radio, uncommon in 1950 and very rare outside military offices, nor she does imagine all the strange places Ursula goes, or the fact that Ursula drops encrypted notes in a tree trunk and pulls envelopes from the same hole. And what abou