Murder at the Mermaid’s Bargain Inn: A Haunted Echo Point Cozy Mystery (Haunted Echo Point Cozy Mysteries Book 4)
By Edith Ellis
A seaside inn. A buried ledger. A debt that refuses to stay silent.
When bookstore owner Luna Brook accepts a rare-book appraisal at the historic Mermaid’s Bargain Inn, she expects creaking floors, salt-stained journals, and the usual small-town secrets. She doesn’t expect a violent storm that traps the guests inside… or a hollowed atlas concealing a decades-old ledger.
By morning, a body lies broken on the rocks below the cliffs.
The locals call it an accident.
Luna knows better.
As rumors ripple through Echo Point and another death follows, Luna uncovers the truth behind an old maritime pact known only as the Bargain—a shadowy agreement that demanded silence, obedience… and payment in blood.
But the deeper she digs, the more the Bargain feels less like a forgotten chapter—and more like a foundation stone of Echo Point itself.
Names in the ledger echo others she’s seen before.
Dates align too perfectly with tragedies long dismissed.
And the town’s past seems to be surfacing, tide by relentless tide.
With her sharp-tongued black cat Whiskers on alert and a restless ghost determined to be heard, Luna must decipher the ledger before the killer collects the final debt.
Because in Echo Point, history doesn’t stay buried.
It waits.
Book 4 in the ongoing Echo Point Paranormal Mystery series—each mystery stands alone, but the truth about the town is only beginning to rise.
A seaside inn. A buried ledger. A debt that refuses to stay silent.
When bookstore owner Luna Brook accepts a rare-book appraisal at the historic Mermaid’s Bargain Inn, she expects creaking floors, salt-stained journals, and the usual small-town secrets. She doesn’t expect a violent storm that traps the guests inside… or a hollowed atlas concealing a decades-old ledger.
By morning, a body lies broken on the rocks below the cliffs.
The locals call it an accident.
Luna knows better.
As rumors ripple through Echo Point and another death follows, Luna uncovers the truth behind an old maritime pact known only as the Bargain—a shadowy agreement that demanded silence, obedience… and payment in blood.
But the deeper she digs, the more the Bargain feels less like a forgotten chapter—and more like a foundation stone of Echo Point itself.
Names in the ledger echo others she’s seen before.
Dates align too perfectly with tragedies long dismissed.
And the town’s past seems to be surfacing, tide by relentless tide.
With her sharp-tongued black cat Whiskers on alert and a restless ghost determined to be heard, Luna must decipher the ledger before the killer collects the final debt.
Because in Echo Point, history doesn’t stay buried.
It waits.
Book 4 in the ongoing Echo Point Paranormal Mystery series—each mystery stands alone, but the truth about the town is only beginning to rise.