🌼 Meet the Characters of A Bunch of Daisies
A cast shaped by secrets, loyalties, and the shadows of the canal.
DC Fleming — Supporting
Measured, steady, and quietly intuitive. Fleming becomes one of Daisy’s first anchors in the investigation, offering calm guidance when her world begins to fracture.
Detective Raines — Supporting
Sharp‑eyed and relentless. Raines has a talent for spotting inconsistencies and pushing past surface‑level truths, often steering the investigation into uncomfortable territory.
Genna Davies — Supporting
Warm, witty, and fiercely loyal. Genna is Daisy’s closest friend — the person she trusts most. Her sudden disappearance tears a hole through Daisy’s life and sets the entire story in motion.
Hazel Davies — Antagonist
Guarded, brittle, and unpredictable. Hazel’s presence is a storm cloud over the Davies family, and her shifting moods make her difficult to read. Her role in the unfolding mystery is anything but simple.
Marcus Peña — Love Interest
Grounded, thoughtful, and quietly charming. Marcus offers Daisy emotional steadiness when she needs it most. His loyalty deepens as the truth grows darker.
Mark Davies — Supporting
Protective and pragmatic. Mark tries to hold the family together as tension rises, but his determination to shield those he loves often clashes with the realities of the investigation.
Sally Baxter — Supporting
Open, friendly, and deeply rooted in the community. Sally becomes an unexpected source of insight, offering pieces of information that help Daisy connect the dots.
Tim Davies — Supporting
Quiet, observant, and often overlooked. Tim’s perspective adds nuance to the Davies family dynamic, revealing subtle tensions others miss.
Wallace Croft — Antagonist
Cold, calculating, and unsettlingly composed. Croft’s involvement raises the stakes dramatically, pulling Daisy into dangerous territory where every choice carries weight.
Chapter One
Daisy Carroway wakes to a cold September morning, the kind that makes her linger under the covers before facing the day. Her first thoughts are of her best friend, Genna — their late‑night messages, their running‑club jokes, and the easy rhythm of their friendship.
At work, Daisy moves through her usual routine: sorting post, answering phones, making tea, and exchanging quick, bright calls with Genna. They arrange to meet that evening at their usual bench by the canal, custard creams included.
But as the day unfolds, small details begin to feel off. A new barber shop across the street catches Daisy’s eye. A man inside sweeps the floor with slow, deliberate movements. He seems ordinary — but Daisy notices him anyway.
When evening comes, Daisy waits at the canal bench. The water is low, the towpath quiet, the light fading. Genna texts: “On my way!” But she never arrives.
Minutes stretch into hours. Calls go unanswered. The towpath grows darker, lonelier. And then Daisy sees it — a bag on the gravel, a phone half-hidden in the grass, eighteen missed calls lighting up the cracked screen.
Genna is gone.
The chapter closes with Daisy’s voice cracking as she calls the police, standing alone beside the silent canal, clutching her friend’s phone while a siren approaches in the distance.
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