Ahhh, this explains a lot — Maisy Marple:
Maisy Marple appears to be a pen name originally used by a publisher who hired multiple authors to ghostwrite various series. In 2025 they appear to have switched writing all the new books using AI.
Having run out of things I wanted to read I landed on A Kernel of Truth (Harvest of Clues Book 1) by Maisy Marple, Publication date: January 11, 2026. 📚
The book is simplistic, trivial and trite, often contradictory. How many times were we told about the dog:
His mismatched eyes-one blue, one brown …
I think I was duped into reading a free book written by AI. My consolation is that I thought it just wasn't good.