The Berry Farm

Florence Campbell and Agnes Van Eck are nineteen-year-old college students and long-time best friends who are working a summer job together at a small local state park. When they arrive at the park one morning, both are looking forward to helping with a holiday weekend reptile and amphibians exhibit at the park’s museum. But they are about to discover that sometimes life is unpredictable—and not in a good way.

While checking on an ill-fitting door in a park building, Florence discovers the corpse of water technician, Seth Gilman, and immediately calls the police. While Florence and Agnes navigate the anxiety of their families and the gossip of neighbors, Township detective Pat McClellan and his county partner, Nicole Sansone, weed through observations and memories, some of them decades old, to understand what led to the death. As their investigation leads back into the history of the family who originally carved out this small sanctuary from city life, now only time will tell if they can solve the mystery.

The Berry Farm is the story of a tragic discovery at a state park at the beginning of a long holiday weekend that leads to the revelation that the past sometimes does not stay in the past.