The Boundary Between Them
Bramleigh Village Detective, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Charles Robert Fox
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By:
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Richard Ashcombe
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In the quiet village of Bramleigh, problems are rarely confronted directly. They are deferred, softened, or allowed to fade into habit.
When a man slips in a field where no boundary has ever been clearly marked, Thomas Hale begins asking questions. What appears to be a minor accident soon reveals something deeper: a patch of land that everyone uses but no one claims, a boundary drawn on maps but never placed on the ground, and a system that depends on silence to keep the peace.
As Hale traces the history of the field through old records, conversations, and long-standing village customs, he discovers that the absence of a simple marker has allowed responsibility to dissolve across decades. Each person knows where not to step, yet no one has ever been willing to say why.
In Bramleigh, clarity has always been postponed.
But when questions begin to travel through the village, the real issue emerges—not where the boundary lies, but how long everyone has agreed not to look for it.
The Boundary Between Them is a quiet detective novella about habit, responsibility, and the cost of leaving things unresolved.
©2026 Richard Ashcombe (P)2026 Richard Ashcombe