Murder Checks Inn
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Publisher Description
A dead guest. A town full of secrets. And an innkeeper whose remarkable memory may be the only thing standing between a killer and their next victim.
Golden Glen has always been a charming place to visit—a welcoming community where neighbors know each other's names and the Harlow House Inn has been a beloved gathering place for years.
Until a guest is murdered.
With no clear suspect and everyone at the inn hiding something, experienced detective Captain David McAlister begins investigating a case that proves even small towns have dangerous secrets. His first concern? Keeping civilians out of the investigation—including Maiden Harlow, who may know more about the crime than she realizes.
Maiden has an extraordinary ability to remember details others overlook. Conversations. Faces. Small inconsistencies that don't seem important until they become the key to the truth.
But McAlister trusts evidence, not hunches. Maiden trusts what she remembers.
As rumors of a bank robbery in a neighboring town complicate the investigation, secrets begin to surface, alliances shift, and the peaceful charm of Golden Glen starts to crack.
To find a killer hiding among familiar faces, Maiden and McAlister will have to learn to rely on each other's strengths—before someone else checks into the Harlow House Inn and never leaves alive.
Murder Checks Inn is the first book in the Maiden Harlow Mysteries, a dark cozy mystery series featuring an innkeeper amateur sleuth, an experienced detective, small-town secrets, slow-burn romance, clever clues, and twist-filled whodunits.
Perfect for fans of amateur sleuth mysteries, small-town mysteries, female detectives, atmospheric cozies, and page-turning murder mysteries.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A Midwestern hotel employee reinvents herself as an amateur sleuth in Sharp's endearing debut cozy. Maiden Harlow works at the Harlow House Inn in Golden Glen, Mich., alongside her parents and her sister, Vonny. Most days consist of little more than lugging bags up and down stairs and managing the occasional hotheaded guest. Then a man named Mr. Creevey, who arrived at the inn with no ID and few possessions, is found in his room with his head bashed in. After police captain David McAlister learns that Maiden had a heated argument with the dead man when she caught him trying to hack the inn's computer system, he pins her as his lead suspect. To clear her name, Maiden sets out to solve the murder herself, following a trail of clues that leads to an unprecedented bank robbery in a neighboring town. Sharp doesn't reinvent the wheel, but her plotting is brisk and she makes Maiden's wobbly first attempts at detecting feel plausible. This a diverting whodunit for fans of Murder, She Wrote. (Self-published)
