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When Detective Inspector Nora Vane arrives in the Somerset coastal town of Velmoor, she expects a quiet suspicious-death inquiry. What she finds is something older and more dangerous: a lie drawn in ink and buried in the county archive for thirty years.
Edmund Ashby — cartographer of international repute, quiet widower, keeper of secrets — has been found dead in his clifftop studio. Nothing was taken. No one broke in. And yet something is missing, and someone wanted it found that way.
As Nora pieces together the history of Velmoor's land, its fishing rights, and the family whose livelihood was quietly erased by a surveyor's pencil, she begins to understand that the most dangerous maps are not the wrong ones. They are the ones that look right.
The Cartographer of Lies is a beautifully atmospheric British crime novel — part procedural, part meditation on truth, memory, and the courage it takes to correct the record. Set against the October light of the Bristol Channel, it is a story about what we owe to the living, what we owe to the dead, and what happens when someone finally decides to draw an honest map.
Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Kate Atkinson, and Robert Macfarlane.
