The Inheritance of Ashes
A Victorian Historical Murder Mystery Family Saga NovelBy Augustin Hale
Length11h 20m
About this audiobook
Northumberland, 1873.
Sir Edmund Crowhurst dies in the fire that consumes his mill, and leaves his three children a scorched estate, an impossible debt, and one charred ledger page naming a man none of them has ever heard of.
Rosalind stays to hold the estate together. Thomas rides to London to reason with men who do not reason. Beatrice walks down to the mill village, where the fire began and the watchman died, and where nobody will meet her eye.
What they find is not grief. It is arithmetic.
A Victorian historical murder mystery of inheritance, complicity and three siblings who will never again be in the same room without counting what it cost.
For readers of family sagas and slow-burning period crime.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Thursday, 2 October, 1873, 6.20 a.m. — the mill yard at Wansbeck
2Two
3Wednesday, 17 September, 7.20 p.m. — the lane above Wansbeck village
4Monday, 6 October, 4.15 p.m. — the Hartley cottage, Wansbeck
5Five
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6Tuesday, 15 July, 1873, 6.20 a.m. — the estate office, Crowhurst
7Thursday, 17 July, 1873, 3.40 a.m. — the lane above Wansbeck
8Thursday, 31 July, 8.15 a.m. — the Crown and Anchor, Morpeth
9Nine
10Sunday, 14 December 1873, 6.40 a.m. — the manager's house, Wansbeck
11Eleven
12Twelve
13About the author
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