When journalist Julia Wright and her golden retriever Cooper are stranded by a blinding snowstorm, they take refuge in the grand but slightly crumbling Halcyon Manor Inn — expecting cocoa, creaky floors, and a quiet night out of the weather.
Instead, they find a house full of secrets.
With the inn’s nervous owner and a gallery of suspicious guests — including a theatrical actress with a flair for drama and a brilliant but temperamental mathematician — tensions rise as fast as the snowdrifts outside.
Then one guest is found dead in a locked room… with the only key inside.
As power flickers, accusations fly, and Cooper’s nose uncovers clues no one else sees, Julia is pulled deeper into a web of blackmail, hidden passages, missing documents, and old grudges that refuse to stay buried.
With a killer trapped inside the manor — and another attempt on someone’s life already underway — Julia must solve the puzzle before the storm lifts and the murderer slips away forever.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Instead, they find a house full of secrets.
With the inn’s nervous owner and a gallery of suspicious guests — including a theatrical actress with a flair for drama and a brilliant but temperamental mathematician — tensions rise as fast as the snowdrifts outside.
Then one guest is found dead in a locked room… with the only key inside.
As power flickers, accusations fly, and Cooper’s nose uncovers clues no one else sees, Julia is pulled deeper into a web of blackmail, hidden passages, missing documents, and old grudges that refuse to stay buried.
With a killer trapped inside the manor — and another attempt on someone’s life already underway — Julia must solve the puzzle before the storm lifts and the murderer slips away forever.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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