Murder in the Room That Wasn't There
(2026)(The first book in the Impossible Rooms Mysteries series)
A novel by Lila Moonfern
A room that doesn’t exist.
A murder weapon that belongs to her.
A house determined to reveal what everyone else wants buried.
Structural restoration specialist Tessa Halden returns to the coastal town of Cedarwake intending to inspect the Victorian inn she inherited and sell it as quickly as possible. But Elsewhere House refuses to fit its own blueprints. Corridors change length, doors appear without warning, and a small stone gargoyle seems to notice far more than it should.
Then, after a tense dinner, a thirteenth room materializes on the third floor.
Inside lies Graham Ashcombe, the man whose testimony destroyed Tessa’s career, murdered with her missing brass plumb bob. When the impossible room vanishes, it leaves behind a body, a collection of contradictory clues, and several guests with reasons to keep Graham silent.
With pragmatic carpenter Caleb Northcott helping her measure what should not exist and Detective Lena Ortiz demanding evidence the house may not preserve, Tessa must separate real objects from magical copies, old guilt from present motive, and reasonable explanations from carefully constructed lies.
Because the murder is connected to the professional disaster that drove Tessa from her former life—and someone at Elsewhere House knows exactly how to use an impossible room.
Murder in the Room That Wasn’t There is the captivating first book in The Impossible Rooms Mysteries, an atmospheric paranormal cozy mystery series filled with fair-play clues, small-town warmth, gentle magic, found family, and a slow-burn connection between two people learning how to trust again.
Some secrets are hidden inside walls.
Others build rooms of their own.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
A murder weapon that belongs to her.
A house determined to reveal what everyone else wants buried.
Structural restoration specialist Tessa Halden returns to the coastal town of Cedarwake intending to inspect the Victorian inn she inherited and sell it as quickly as possible. But Elsewhere House refuses to fit its own blueprints. Corridors change length, doors appear without warning, and a small stone gargoyle seems to notice far more than it should.
Then, after a tense dinner, a thirteenth room materializes on the third floor.
Inside lies Graham Ashcombe, the man whose testimony destroyed Tessa’s career, murdered with her missing brass plumb bob. When the impossible room vanishes, it leaves behind a body, a collection of contradictory clues, and several guests with reasons to keep Graham silent.
With pragmatic carpenter Caleb Northcott helping her measure what should not exist and Detective Lena Ortiz demanding evidence the house may not preserve, Tessa must separate real objects from magical copies, old guilt from present motive, and reasonable explanations from carefully constructed lies.
Because the murder is connected to the professional disaster that drove Tessa from her former life—and someone at Elsewhere House knows exactly how to use an impossible room.
Murder in the Room That Wasn’t There is the captivating first book in The Impossible Rooms Mysteries, an atmospheric paranormal cozy mystery series filled with fair-play clues, small-town warmth, gentle magic, found family, and a slow-burn connection between two people learning how to trust again.
Some secrets are hidden inside walls.
Others build rooms of their own.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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