The Things She Left Behind
The first Clara Vennick mystery, set in Minehead.
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Clara Vennick
House clearances. Old secrets. Unfinished stories.
In Minehead, Somerset, a house clearance can reveal far more than the things people leave behind.
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The Things She Left Behind
When Clara takes on a clearance in Minehead, she expects furniture, dust and a difficult staircase. Instead, she finds a room prepared for a visitor, a biscuit tin decorated with a sailing boat, and traces of a woman who disappeared decades ago.
Some things are left behind. Others are meant to stay buried.
Book details
Meet Clara
She clears houses.
She notices everything.
Clara Vennick spends her working life among the possessions people leave behind — furniture, photographs, paperwork, forgotten drawers and locked cupboards.
Vennick House Clearances
A practical business in a Somerset coastal town. Most jobs are ordinary. Some leave Clara with questions she cannot quite put down.
She is observant, independent and far more interested in what a room tells her than what people claim happened inside it.
Clara’s World
Minehead, Somerset
Sea air, Victorian streets, Exmoor on the doorstep and old houses full of lives that rarely disappear as neatly as their owners imagine.
Minehead is not simply a backdrop to the series. Its streets, coastline and surrounding landscape are part of Clara’s working world — and part of every mystery that begins when a front door opens.
The Series
The Clara Vennick Mysteries
Each story begins with the things people leave behind — and the truths that refuse to be cleared away.
Another clearance. Another secret.
The series is only beginning.
Clara’s World
Locations, objects, notes and stories from the world behind the mysteries.