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One gnome’s peaceful life gets complicated... when three fumbling fairies involve him in a murder mystery.

Ziggy Poppin isn’t your typical scavenger. He’s a quirky industrious gnome who helps his sister run the townlet’s local pub in Thimbleville. When Zig isn’t scouring for trinkets at the humans’ midden in the wee hours of the night, he ’borrows’ from a farmer’s vegetable patch like it’s a free-for-all open market. But picking the cream of the farm’s crops comes to an abrupt halt when the owner is murdered.

The three fairy sisters storm his attic, demanding space for their investigation into the human’s disappearance. But they really aren’t detectives, and Zig can’t rely on their magical mayhem to help him find crime-solving clues.

Desperate for peace and hoping to earn a few priceless fairy tears, Ziggy makes a bargain with the sisters, agreeing to help with their search for Old Tom’s killer. Along the way, Zig’s going to uncover hidden secrets that forest kinfolk would rather remain buried.

This is a light-hearted cozy with a touch of dry humor and a twisty clever plot, about an unwilling garden gnome turned amateur sleuth and the three fumbling fairies who think they can help him to solve a fairy tale crime caper.

Enter the Fractured Forest if you dare. There be faun and fracas, troll and trouble, fae and foul play while one simple gnome seeks to regain his quiet lifestyle.