The Body in the Bathhouse
(2026)(The second book in the Bitterport Mystery series)
A novel by Suzanne Gilchrist
A fresh start. A gruesome discovery. And a killer with a dangerous obsession.
Mercy Galanis needs a new beginning. Inheriting a crumbling historic bathhouse in the remote Tasmanian ghost town of Bitterport seems like the universe delivering. Until she gets there.
The weather is brutal. The town is barely breathing. The bathhouse is in ruins. And Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something ''' or someone — is watching her every move.
Then her dog unearths a mummified body, and Bitterport’s silence takes on a darker meaning.
Determined to uncover the dead man’s identity — and her own unsettling connection to him — Mercy reluctantly teams up with Zac Alexander, the infuriatingly capable single-dad plumber with renovation plans of his own and zero interest in complications. Mercy, apparently, is nothing but.
As they dig deeper into Bitterport’s buried past, someone determined to protect their secret at all cost decides they have come too close.
In Bitterport, the ground always gives up its dead. The question is whether you survive the discovery.
Genre: Mystery
Mercy Galanis needs a new beginning. Inheriting a crumbling historic bathhouse in the remote Tasmanian ghost town of Bitterport seems like the universe delivering. Until she gets there.
The weather is brutal. The town is barely breathing. The bathhouse is in ruins. And Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something ''' or someone — is watching her every move.
Then her dog unearths a mummified body, and Bitterport’s silence takes on a darker meaning.
Determined to uncover the dead man’s identity — and her own unsettling connection to him — Mercy reluctantly teams up with Zac Alexander, the infuriatingly capable single-dad plumber with renovation plans of his own and zero interest in complications. Mercy, apparently, is nothing but.
As they dig deeper into Bitterport’s buried past, someone determined to protect their secret at all cost decides they have come too close.
In Bitterport, the ground always gives up its dead. The question is whether you survive the discovery.
Genre: Mystery