Digging Up Secrets

Penelope “Penny” Whistle never expected her quiet life in the sleepy town of Cedar Hollow to take a sharp turn into the mysterious. But when an anonymous postcard arrived in her mailbox—a vintage black-and-white photo of the town’s oldest magnolia tree with the words “She’s not where they buried her” scrawled on the back—Penny’s inner amateur sleuth sprang to life.

As the owner of Whistle Stop Antiques, Penny knew a thing or two about oddities. But this? This was personal. The magnolia in question stood in the center of the town cemetery, right next to the grave of Eliza Hartwood, Cedar Hollow’s most infamous unsolved mystery.