Morwenna Penhallow

Morwenna Penhallow grew up knowing nothing about Cornwall except that the sea there was apparently too cold. She learned the rest the hard way: clearing her late father’s house, with the wallpaper coming away in her hand.

She did not ask Edmund Hale to prove her father innocent. She asked him for the truth, whatever it was, and she sent him the only thing she had left of either her father or her grandfather: a ledger in green cloth, gone black at the corners.

What she did after the case is in the sealed file.