{"id":3411,"date":"2026-09-24T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:15:11","slug":"windermere-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3411","title":{"rendered":"Windermere Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Windermere Witness is the first book in the Lake District Mysteries cozy crime series by Rebecca Tope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/windermere-witness-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"windermere witness\" class=\"wp-image-3412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/windermere-witness-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/windermere-witness-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/windermere-witness-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/windermere-witness.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">windermere witness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon \u2018Simmy\u2019 Brown has moved to the beautiful region of the Lake District to be nearer her charismatic parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things are going well, with her latest flower arrangements praised and Simmy content to lose herself in her work. But the peace she has found is shattered when, at the wedding of a millionaire\u2019s daughter, the bride\u2019s brother is found brutally murdered in the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the florist of the wedding and one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive, Simmy gradually becomes involved with the grief-ridden and angry relatives. All seem to have their fair share of secrets and scandals \u2013 an uncaring mother, a cheating father, and a husband twenty-five years older than his bride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When events take another sinister turn, Simmy becomes a prime witness and finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief suspects are the groom and his closely knit band of bachelor friends. They are all intimidating, volatile and secretive \u2013 but which one is a killer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Available<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/3668\/9780749022556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">City Adventurers Solve The Murder<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/3668\/9780749022556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/3668\/9780749022556<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also available from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B04TUbGym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B04TUbGym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">https:\/\/link.amazon\/B04TUbGym<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windermere Witness is the first book in the Lake District Mysteries cozy crime series by Rebecca Tope. Plot Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon \u2018Simmy\u2019 Brown has moved to the beautiful region of the Lake District to be nearer her charismatic parents. Things are going well, with her latest flower arrangements praised and Simmy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3411\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windermere Witness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,52,225],"tags":[637,484,965,174,641,966],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery","category-murder-mystery-books","category-mystery-books","tag-book-club","tag-city-adventurers-solve-the-murder","tag-lake-district-mysteries","tag-rebecca-tope","tag-solve-the-murder-book-club","tag-windermere-witness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windermere Witness - Solve The Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Windermere Witness is the first book in the Lake District Mysteries cozy crime series by Rebecca Tope.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windermere Witness - 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