MURDER AFTER CHECK-IN

Verity Crane finally has her first proper booking of the season at Bramble Inn, the Tudor manor she inherited from her grandmother in the sleepy coastal village of Wickmere Bay. All she wants is a full guest list and a peaceful spring. What she gets is a body at the foot of her own cellar stairs.

Her very first guest, a marine insurance investigator chasing a thirty-year-old shipwreck no one wants reopened, checks in on Friday and is dead by Sunday morning, behind a cellar door Verity locked with her own hands. The local constable is quick to call it an accident. Verity, a former museum archivist with a corgi named Huck who never misses a clue, isn't buying it.

As she digs through decades of village secrets, an old smuggling scandal, and a harbor community that has spent thirty years protecting one of its own, Verity realizes the killer is still close by, still watching, and increasingly desperate to keep the past buried. With her housekeeper Delphine at her side, a slow-burn romance with a steady-handed land surveyor, and a killer who's run out of patience, Verity has one chance to see justice done before Bramble Inn's very first season becomes its last.

Fans of cozy mystery books with a dog, British village mystery books, and clean cozy mysteries with a touch of romance can curl up with this 1920s historical cozy mystery series. If you enjoy amateur sleuth mystery books, pour a cup of tea and settle into Bramble Inn.

Read Murder After Check-In today and find out who's been keeping Wickmere Bay's oldest secret.