A Vermont ski lodge in January. A dead man in the snow. And somewhere in the attic of Ridgeline Lodge, a hidden invention that someone decided was worth killing over.
Callie Vance arrives at Kettle Ridge to liquidate the sprawling mountain estate of Harlan Mabry—engineer, inventor, and the kind of man who built things with his hands and documented everything he made. The job should take two weeks. Then she finds a prototype in a locked workshop, and the man who dies on the mountain wasn't supposed to be there at all.
The motive is greed—pure and uncomplicating. But the trail of who knew about Harlan's work, who came to Kettle Ridge to claim it, and who made sure a rival collector wouldn't leave is buried in eight years of records, a workshop full of careful notation, and a community that loved Harlan Mabry and has very strong feelings about what happens to what he left behind.
Winston has never worked mountain cold before. His nose adapts. Callie takes notes. And slowly, the shape of what actually happened in that attic starts to hold.
Peak Performance is the second book in the Estate Sale Mysteries series—a clean, satisfying cozy with sharp wit, a mountain setting, and a case built piece by careful piece.
Read as a standalone or continue the series—either way, bring coffee.
Genre: Mystery
Callie Vance arrives at Kettle Ridge to liquidate the sprawling mountain estate of Harlan Mabry—engineer, inventor, and the kind of man who built things with his hands and documented everything he made. The job should take two weeks. Then she finds a prototype in a locked workshop, and the man who dies on the mountain wasn't supposed to be there at all.
The motive is greed—pure and uncomplicating. But the trail of who knew about Harlan's work, who came to Kettle Ridge to claim it, and who made sure a rival collector wouldn't leave is buried in eight years of records, a workshop full of careful notation, and a community that loved Harlan Mabry and has very strong feelings about what happens to what he left behind.
Winston has never worked mountain cold before. His nose adapts. Callie takes notes. And slowly, the shape of what actually happened in that attic starts to hold.
Peak Performance is the second book in the Estate Sale Mysteries series—a clean, satisfying cozy with sharp wit, a mountain setting, and a case built piece by careful piece.
Read as a standalone or continue the series—either way, bring coffee.
Genre: Mystery
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