Best Left Buried cover art

Best Left Buried

Darcy & Flora Cozy Mystery, Book 3

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Best Left Buried

By: Blanche Day Manos
Narrated by: Michelle Babb
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Darcy Campbell might have expected life in a small Oklahoma town nestled in the beautiful Ozark foothills to be as idyllic as the scenery. That, however, is not what she finds when she returns to her hometown of Levi after the death of her husband.

One autumn morning, Darcy and her mother, Flora Tucker, are enjoying a cup of coffee in their hundred-year old farmhouse when Darcy gets an urgent telephone call. The contractor who is digging the foundation for their new home insists that Darcy drop everything and come to the building site as quickly as she can. He has found a mysterious object deep in a hand-dug well and he needs Darcy's help in retrieving it.

The ancient, crumbling package pulled from the well contains two items that are as shocking as they are inscrutable. In trying to decipher the meaning of these long-buried objects, Darcy and Flora discover a dark secret from their family's past.

A kidnapping, a brush with death, and a stranger's greed add to the mix. The era of World War I becomes enmeshed with the present day as Darcy and Flora unravel a tangled web of deceit that has ensnared their family.

Volume 3 of the Darcy & Flora cozy mystery series.

©2014 Blanche Day Manos and Barbara Burgess (P)2016 Blanche Day Manos and Barbara Burgess
Cosy Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Cemetery Club cover art
Will Travel for Trouble cover art
Without a Trace cover art
The View from Rainshadow Bay cover art
The Ruby Locket cover art
Time and Again cover art
Donn's Hill cover art
Franki Amato Mysteries Box Set, Books 1-3 cover art
The Hanged Man's Noose cover art
In the Blue Hour cover art
We Hope for Better Things cover art
The House on Tradd Street cover art
Skeletons in the Attic cover art
Smoky Mountain Tracks cover art
Them Bones cover art
The Night the Lights Went Out cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I enjoyed this book. This is the second book by this author I have listened to and I think I enjoyed this book more than book two, I did enjoy both but I think this one contains more mystery. It was interesting to learn about the characters past and it had me hooked right from the start. I liked the characters in the previous book but with this one I felt more attached and cared about what happened to them. The mystery was good and it felt like there was several cases or situations going on at once, so held my attention the whole way through and I am looking forward to starting the next book.
Darcy is called early one morning to a long ago forgotten well on her land that she and her mother have big plans for. The builder has uncovered the well to find something stuck in there and hoping it is hidden gold he needs help reaching it. With this discovery Flora and Darcy find themselves on another case, this one involving themselves. A gun was wrapped up in the sheep's skin but it is the faded wording that left an imprint, which has them reeling and questioning everything they thought they knew about there past. The old timers of the village aren't talking and are in fact telling them to leave it alone but a mystery that involves themselves is to important to ignore. At the same time a property developer makes an offer on there land and a lady turns up claiming to be the rightful owner of the land. What is going on? Why has the piece of land there were planning to build there new land on suddenly become so popular? And is it all connected? The pair will have to dodge bullets, poisonings and kidnappings to get to the bottom of this little mystery.
Michelle Babb is a great choice for this series (or In fact any series) because she brings a lot of enjoyment to the table with her pleasant voice and excellent individual voices for the characters.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Some secrets are best kept secert

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Absolutely loved this mystery book with lots of twists and turns narration was brilliant by Michelle Babb

Brilliant page turner mystery by best author

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Listener received this title free

Who would of thought that finding a gun would bring so much history to life and past life events to life.
A great read and great narration

Skeleton in the cupboard or in the case a well

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Listener received this title free

This is a very intriguing story that kicks off with a discovery in a well. That one small discovery leads to a whole slew of mysteries and draws some dangerous attention to our favourite mother and daughter team.

A great story well narrated by Michelle Babb.

Enjoyable mystery story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Amazing audiobook love the series so far
Darcy Campbell might have expected life in a small Oklahoma town

Amazing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews