Death at Melvin House
(2026)(The fourth book in the Tilly Lafleur Mystery series)
A novel by Maisie Graves
Balsam Bay Founders Week is meant to celebrate the town’s beginnings—a week of shared history, public lectures, and new and familiar faces. The week centres on the Heritage Museum, once the private home of founder Sam Melvin.
Instead, it stirs up something long buried.
When a minor disturbance in the founder’s study is followed by the death of a visiting historian, the mood in town shifts and conversations grow careful. Old loyalties resurface, and what began as a celebration takes on a sharper edge.
Tilly Lafleur can feel it—the sense that the past is pressing hard against the present. With her daughter Callie pursuing questions of her own and her brother, an RCMP officer, navigating mounting pressure behind the scenes, Tilly must decide how far she’s willing to push in a town that doesn’t welcome certain truths.
Because in Balsam Bay, history isn’t just preserved.
It’s protected.
Genre: Mystery
Instead, it stirs up something long buried.
When a minor disturbance in the founder’s study is followed by the death of a visiting historian, the mood in town shifts and conversations grow careful. Old loyalties resurface, and what began as a celebration takes on a sharper edge.
Tilly Lafleur can feel it—the sense that the past is pressing hard against the present. With her daughter Callie pursuing questions of her own and her brother, an RCMP officer, navigating mounting pressure behind the scenes, Tilly must decide how far she’s willing to push in a town that doesn’t welcome certain truths.
Because in Balsam Bay, history isn’t just preserved.
It’s protected.
Genre: Mystery