Arriving in Oxford from America to visit her grandmother and help in the shop for a few weeks, Lucy finds the knitting shop, Cardinal Woolsey, closed. The shop is never closed outside of its published opening hours. Lucy is told by the old ladies in the tea shop next door that her grandmother died 3 weeks ago, peacefully in her sleep, and that they had not been able to make contact with her or her mother to let them know.
After a visit to the solicitor Lucy is told that she, not her mother, is to inherit the shop with the living accommodation above, and that her grandmother’s wishes are that she runs the shop for a least the next year. Lucy had never planned to run a shop and she can’t even knit.
Lucy becomes convinced that all is not what it seems with her grandmother’s death after finding spots of blood on the floor in the shop along with her grandmother’s glasses on a broken chain, when they should have been upstairs with her by the side of her bed.
There is someone trying to buy up the row of 4 shops, at a very high price, who tells Lucy her grandmother was just about to sign the paperwork. Lucy needs time to work out what is happening and what her grandmother was really planning before she can decide what to do.
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