Slay Bells and Secret Wills : A Christmas Locked-Room Cozy Mystery with a Psychic Sleuth and Deadly Holiday Games (The Mindreader Murder Club Mysteries Series Book 4)
By Liora Dawn
A Christmas Locked-Room Cozy Mystery with a Psychic Sleuth and Deadly Holiday Games
Cassie never planned on spending Christmas snowed in at a cliffside manor with the people who ruined her life. Then she pulls a cream colored invitation from a dusty archive box, addressed to the original club founders and quietly updated to this year. Harlan Devereux, one of the last surviving founders, is hosting a holiday house party for the old guard of Marigold Cove. The sheriff assigns Rowan as security after anonymous threats land on Harlan’s doorstep. Cassie goes as club liaison, with Lina, Dev, Harper, Grim, and Finn all finding reasons to come along.
On the first night, under glittering lights and carols, Harlan announces plans to sign a new will that will dismantle the founders fund, donate his fortune to real good, and record a full confession about past “incidents.” By morning he is dead on the rug of his locked study. The hall door is sealed from the inside. The cliffside window is bolted and rimed with snow. A storm cuts off the estate.
Trapped with a house full of founding members, heirs, and staff who have spent decades lying for each other, Cassie leans fully into her gift. With help from the host’s elderly spaniel and a watchful band of crows, she and Rowan uncover hidden passages, missing recordings, and the final shape of a conspiracy that began with a forgotten girl and a staged rescue. Slay Bells and Secret Wills wraps the first Mindreader Murder Club arc with a classic snowed in locked room puzzle, Christmas cozy atmosphere, talking animals, and a hard won, grounded commitment between a psychic sleuth and the detective who finally admits he is on her side.
A Christmas Locked-Room Cozy Mystery with a Psychic Sleuth and Deadly Holiday Games
Cassie never planned on spending Christmas snowed in at a cliffside manor with the people who ruined her life. Then she pulls a cream colored invitation from a dusty archive box, addressed to the original club founders and quietly updated to this year. Harlan Devereux, one of the last surviving founders, is hosting a holiday house party for the old guard of Marigold Cove. The sheriff assigns Rowan as security after anonymous threats land on Harlan’s doorstep. Cassie goes as club liaison, with Lina, Dev, Harper, Grim, and Finn all finding reasons to come along.
On the first night, under glittering lights and carols, Harlan announces plans to sign a new will that will dismantle the founders fund, donate his fortune to real good, and record a full confession about past “incidents.” By morning he is dead on the rug of his locked study. The hall door is sealed from the inside. The cliffside window is bolted and rimed with snow. A storm cuts off the estate.
Trapped with a house full of founding members, heirs, and staff who have spent decades lying for each other, Cassie leans fully into her gift. With help from the host’s elderly spaniel and a watchful band of crows, she and Rowan uncover hidden passages, missing recordings, and the final shape of a conspiracy that began with a forgotten girl and a staged rescue. Slay Bells and Secret Wills wraps the first Mindreader Murder Club arc with a classic snowed in locked room puzzle, Christmas cozy atmosphere, talking animals, and a hard won, grounded commitment between a psychic sleuth and the detective who finally admits he is on her side.