Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Nora Brinkley
Series: A Greystone Harbor Cozy Mystery, Book 3
The Book: Murder at Lighthouse Point
Sloane Harper has one job this weekend: keep the Blue Lantern Café stocked, staffed, and profitable while Lighthouse History Weekend fills Greystone Harbor with tourists. Instead, the town's most difficult resident turns up dead in the lighthouse lantern room—and the only clue was hiding in plain sight.
The whole harbor is buzzing, the official story is tidy, and Sloane cannot ignore a puzzle whose details refuse to add up. When Bailey, her sharp-eyed labradoodle, alerts on the clue everyone else overlooked, Sloane starts pulling at threads someone worked very hard to keep buried.
There's no shortage of people who wanted Theo Basset silenced—a harbor rival nursing a long-standing grudge, and a visiting historian dragging a damaged reputation behind him. But the deeper Sloane digs, the clearer it becomes that the real answer reaches far beyond old arguments: someone in Greystone Harbor is protecting a decades-old secret tied to the lighthouse, and they'll do whatever it takes to keep the truth from coming back with the tide.
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)
“A café owner who can’t leave a puzzle alone, a labradoodle who notices what everyone else misses, and a clue hiding in plain sight at the top of a lighthouse. If you like your mysteries salt-aired, dog-assisted, and built on decades-old small-town secrets, start here.”
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