The Jigsaw Puzzle (The Penny Plain Mysteries Book 1)

The first short story in the Penny Plain Mysteries by Jan Jones

Things just haven’t been going right for Penny Plain. She’s recently divorced, and she feels stuck in a rut … a comfortable one, mind you!

As a long-time resident of the Lake District coastal town of Salthaven, old memories are stirred up when Penny’s mother passes away and Penny is left to despondently clear out a lifetime’s worth of possessions. Among her mother’s nick-nacks, she finds an old family photo that has been made into a strange jigsaw puzzle. Penny thinks nothing more of it until she goes to the local bazaar … and finds another one. Where are these oddly-shaped jigsaws coming from?

Penny’s not the only one who senses a mystery around these old puzzles. New journalist in town, Leo Williams, seems strangely interested in them too … but why? Like the jigsaws, there is more to Leo than meets the eye, but it takes another sort of puzzle at a local art gallery to fit the pieces of his riddle together.