Murder in the Winter Woods: A totally unputdownable and completely gripping cozy English murder mystery (Julia Bird Mysteries Book 8) by Katie Gayle

Author:Katie Gayle [Gayle, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2025-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

Julia had thought that a simple search of ‘AAI’ on Matthew’s email and phone might find her the solution, but this was not to be. On Matthew’s phone, a search of AAI brought up his Dutch friend Willem Kraaij, who rather enjoyed sending Matthew articles about bees, but also wasps and mosquitos and spiders. Hester did not think that Willem was the answer to the riddle. Julia then looked at all the ‘A’ contacts on Matthew’s phone and emails, but who could tell? Was AAI Anne Jones, or Anton Delaware, or perhaps George Adams? The list was endless – it could be anyone.

It was only when Julia widened the search to related keywords – ‘money’, ‘invest’, ‘payment’ and so on – that she had success. On the laptop, the search turned up an email trail with someone by the name of Anthony Ardmore, of the company Ardmore Accelerated Investments.

‘AAI,’ said Julia, triumphantly. ‘Got ya!’

Julia opened the first email, with the subject line: Investment opportunity. ‘Here we go,’ she said, turning the laptop towards Hester. They had moved inside, as the afternoon temperature had plummeted, and they were now at the kitchen table. ‘Do you recognise the name Anthony Ardmore?’

‘No, I’ve never heard of him,’ Hester said weakly.

‘Well, let’s see what he’s got to say, shall we?’

The two women read on. The emails were enough to give Julia a headache. It all sounded rather complicated. Anthony Ardmore – why did that name ring a bell? – was offering Matthew some kind of investment opportunity that was somehow related to the farming of medicinal plants. From what Julia could make out, Ardmore Accelerated Investments would invest in a number of different farming opportunities for medicinal plants such as turmeric, garlic and African potato. What differentiates us from our competitors, read an early email, is that we have the inside track on cutting-edge drug development in the US. A number of innovative and revolutionary dread disease drugs have recently been passed by the FDA, with our targeted ingredients as the primary active ingredients. Big Pharm is keeping this silent – but now you are in on the opportunity!

Julia read the emails with a sinking heart. In her life as a social worker, she had seen too many elderly people taken in by get-rich-quick schemes – some clearly daylight robbery, like the old lady who had been sending her Facebook friend, Harrison Ford, a thousand pounds a month to help him rescue squirrels. Others were murkier, ideas that on the surface sounded slightly credible, but when you unpacked them, came to nothing. She would never forget the desperate grandmother who had invested her small inheritance in a natural toothpaste. She hoped that Matthew had not been taken in by something like that, but she didn’t know enough about developments in the world of medicine to say for sure.

‘He really pushed the deal, didn’t he?’ said Hester, reading one of the emails from Anthony Ardmore over Julia’s shoulder. You can see why my Matthew might have been taken in by it.

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