Murder Makes Three at the Hydropathic Hotel
(2026)(A book in the Interwar: Martinis & Motives Circle series)
A novel by Marisa Paxon
I’m the narrator of this book. I’ve already hauled everyone through every damp corridor, every moral pronouncement, and every moment where the plumbing tries to develop a personality, and now they want me to sell it too. Fine. Pull up a chair, preferably one that isn’t scheduled to be ‘invigorating.’
Clemency Fielding has been banished to the Regency Hydropathic Hotel for a ‘rest cure’, which is shorthand for cold water, hard gongs, and strangers insisting your nerves are a personal failing. She arrives with a broken engagement, a famous soap name, and exactly zero desire to be spiritually improved by anyone called Doctor Phelps.
Then the plunge pool produces a corpse, and the hotel tries to call it a ‘respectable tragedy’, as if death becomes polite when served with sausages. Clemency, being bored and damp, does what any sensible woman does: she starts noticing tassels where they shouldn’t be, timetables that have been edited a little too enthusiastically, and the way people get when money, reputations, and fear are all trapped under the same roof.
Fortunately, there’s Major Gabriel Stratton, irritatingly competent, maddeningly observant, and entirely unwilling to let Clemency drown by instalments. Together, they circle suspects, trade barbed honesty, and flirt like two people who refuse to admit they’re flirting until the evidence becomes embarrassing.
Perfect for readers who like wickedly witty cozies, a prickly heroine, a steady hero, suspicious staff, and a closed-door slow burn simmering under the tea tray.
Expect a clue-rich, gently dark, non-gory mystery with a satisfying, logical reveal, plus a closed-door slow-burn romance with an HEA. It’s a complete, standalone case in the Interwar: Martinis & Motives Circle world.
Now click Look Inside, and let’s see if you’re brave enough for the timetable.
Genre: Mystery
Clemency Fielding has been banished to the Regency Hydropathic Hotel for a ‘rest cure’, which is shorthand for cold water, hard gongs, and strangers insisting your nerves are a personal failing. She arrives with a broken engagement, a famous soap name, and exactly zero desire to be spiritually improved by anyone called Doctor Phelps.
Then the plunge pool produces a corpse, and the hotel tries to call it a ‘respectable tragedy’, as if death becomes polite when served with sausages. Clemency, being bored and damp, does what any sensible woman does: she starts noticing tassels where they shouldn’t be, timetables that have been edited a little too enthusiastically, and the way people get when money, reputations, and fear are all trapped under the same roof.
Fortunately, there’s Major Gabriel Stratton, irritatingly competent, maddeningly observant, and entirely unwilling to let Clemency drown by instalments. Together, they circle suspects, trade barbed honesty, and flirt like two people who refuse to admit they’re flirting until the evidence becomes embarrassing.
Perfect for readers who like wickedly witty cozies, a prickly heroine, a steady hero, suspicious staff, and a closed-door slow burn simmering under the tea tray.
Expect a clue-rich, gently dark, non-gory mystery with a satisfying, logical reveal, plus a closed-door slow-burn romance with an HEA. It’s a complete, standalone case in the Interwar: Martinis & Motives Circle world.
Now click Look Inside, and let’s see if you’re brave enough for the timetable.
Genre: Mystery
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