The Carousel Key: A Mended Marvels Mystery (Mended Marvels Mysteries)

The Carousel Key — Amazon/BookBub Description

An old carousel. A mysterious key. And a murder timed down to the minute.

For seven months, Greer Tolliver has kept an iron key on the last hook of her key box, along with the cryptic note her late grandfather left behind:

WHEN IT’S TIME.

The time finally comes when Pellbrook decides to restore the century-old carousel that once turned on the village green. Greer’s key opens a forgotten compartment in its antique band organ—and reveals a hand-punched waltz her grandfather wrote for the woman he loved, along with a sealed envelope addressed to the town.

But Pellbrook isn’t the only one interested in what the carousel has been hiding.

A wealthy Vantreight heir arrives from Boston claiming the carousel belongs to his family, and he has plans for its thirty hand-carved horses: sell them one by one to the highest bidders.

Then, on the night of Pellbrook’s Strawberry Festival, the old band organ plays across the green for the first time in more than fifty years.

By morning, the Vantreight heir is dead.

The police see a tragic fall on rain-slicked steps. Greer sees something else—an antique pocket watch stopped at exactly 9:14.

And Greer knows old mechanisms.

Someone wanted that watch to tell a very particular story.

As Greer follows a trail through forgotten promises, old town grudges, and secrets her grandfather kept for decades, she begins to realize that restoring Pellbrook’s carousel may mean uncovering more than anyone expected.

Because some things were broken long before Greer was born.

And not everyone wants them mended.

The Carousel Key is the second Mended Marvels Mystery, a warm and atmospheric cozy mystery filled with small-town secrets, antique mechanisms, an unforgettable New England setting, and a puzzle designed to keep readers guessing.