Little Martyrs

The bones her son digs up in the cottage garden are only the beginning. Nicola Drury, a widowed social worker, has moved to the remote Norfolk village of Stokemere for a fresh start—but the community greets her with cold silence, missing police files, and centuries-old church paintings of dead children that feel less like art and more like confession. Two teenage girls vanished from this village fifteen years apart, and no one was ever held accountable. As Nicola pulls at the threads of Stokemere's buried past, she discovers that some of its darkest secrets are still breathing.