Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Adeline Krupp
Series: The Claire Whitmore Cozy Mysteries—Books 1–4, complete in one boxset
The Book: Claire Whitmore inherits a Victorian mansion in the picturesque coastal town of Saltcliff Cove and does the sensible thing: she opens an inn. The town does the less sensible thing almost immediately—an antiques dealer dies clutching documents about her property, and the thread Claire pulls leads through blackmail and corruption straight back to her mother's death and the family secrets nobody meant for her to inherit along with the house.
That's Book 1, and Saltcliff Cove is only getting started. A marine biologist, Dr. Evelyn Cross, arrives with cryptic warnings and is soon found dead in the saltmarsh, her death tangled in a decades-old conspiracy involving the town's most powerful family. Then a guest turns up at the inn carrying her late sister's journal, convinced a fatal fall at the lighthouse was murder—and Claire investigates despite the warnings, the stalking, and the threats, racing to expose what's hidden in old shipping documents before she becomes the next victim.
It all comes to a head among the camellias, when the garden club matriarch dies during the annual Garden Tour and Claire uncovers a secret society of powerful women who have been running Saltcliff from behind its flower beds all along—with a connection to her own family, and truths someone will kill to keep buried. Four full mysteries, one inn, one town where the postcard view has a body count.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)
“Four murders, one seaside inn, and a garden club with better-kept secrets than the harbor. If your favorite kind of cozy is the kind where paradise has a past—and an innkeeper stubborn enough to dig it up—Saltcliff Cove is a full weekend, handled.”
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