A Hollowcrest Lodge Murder
(2026)(The fourth book in the Lila Lawson Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Lilly Gibbs
A Perfect Blizzard. A Snowbound Lodge. And an Impossible Murder.
Lila Lawson, a small-town reporter, planned to attend a journalism retreat at her favorite Colorado mountain lodge.
Instead, her plans were shattered when a brutal mountain blizzard quickly moved in, and Lila finds the body of media mogul Victor Graystone, stabbedmid-signature.
Cut off from the outside, Lila takes over, cataloging clues while fighting the urge to straighten every room she enters.
The clues lead to seven disgraced rivals, including Jennifer Chen, a reporter whose career Victor destroyed, and Robert Nash, his enraged business partner. Only one problem: they all have airtight alibis.
But when Lila and her loyal Collie, Ella, discover a hidden passage behind the wall, the plot thickens. The killer wasn't trapped with them; they were using the lodge as a hunting ground.
Then Lila finds key evidence in a vast criminal plot. With a target on her back and nowhere to escape, staying one step ahead of the culprit is the only way she’ll make it out alive.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Lila Lawson, a small-town reporter, planned to attend a journalism retreat at her favorite Colorado mountain lodge.
Instead, her plans were shattered when a brutal mountain blizzard quickly moved in, and Lila finds the body of media mogul Victor Graystone, stabbedmid-signature.
Cut off from the outside, Lila takes over, cataloging clues while fighting the urge to straighten every room she enters.
The clues lead to seven disgraced rivals, including Jennifer Chen, a reporter whose career Victor destroyed, and Robert Nash, his enraged business partner. Only one problem: they all have airtight alibis.
But when Lila and her loyal Collie, Ella, discover a hidden passage behind the wall, the plot thickens. The killer wasn't trapped with them; they were using the lodge as a hunting ground.
Then Lila finds key evidence in a vast criminal plot. With a target on her back and nowhere to escape, staying one step ahead of the culprit is the only way she’ll make it out alive.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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