A Familiar Killing

At the behest of her friends, Constance Aberfield has started her own private investigation firm... and it is not going well. Between the "missing cats" she is constantly hired to find, to the cases of "who ate my lunch," she is all but ready to throw in the towel. That is until she is approached by a strange young woman, Julie Debonair, who claims to have an actual case for her.

Murder is the name of the game, and Constance has been hired to stop it. Julie Debonair's very wealthy father is on death's door, and in an act of either love or madness, he has decided to sign his fortune over to the maid with whom he has recently fallen for. Those family members being written out of the will have flown in for the weekend to stop the horrible act from happening. One of them is planning on killing Alfred, and Constance is tasked with discovering who.

When the maid turns up dead, Constance is furious with herself for not seeing the obvious. But when more bodies pile up, the motives soon become murky, the suspects quickly become corpses, and for the first time Constance questions whether she has the skills required to solve what is very quickly becoming an unsolvable case.

Please Note: Tenth Volume of the the Lone Peak Hotel Mystery Series. Approximately 51,000 words in length. It is a standalone (reading prior or future volumes not required to enjoy the book, no cliffhanger). Themes include: Inheritance, Family, board games, rich/wealthy, murder/death