Book 1
No Vacancy for Trouble
Meg arrives to inventory and sell Ashworth House—then finds a building consultant dead beside the occupancy report that could condemn it.
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Five warm, clue-forward cozy mysteries
The Second Chapter Inn Mysteries
Every renovation uncovers another problem Meg cannot plaster over.
A fifty-two-year-old widow rebuilds a Vermont lakeside inn room by room, solves fair-play mysteries guest by guest, and learns that a second chapter is not a replacement for the first. It is a life with its own shape.
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Come for the inn. Stay for the clues.
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Book 2
The Guest in Room Eleven
A last-minute guest vanishes from Room Eleven, and the woman using his reservation is found dead beneath the newly reopened dock.
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Book 3
A Bitter Finish
The inn's first autumn tasting weekend turns deadly when a drinks critic announces that a celebrated local cider is not what its label claims.
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Book 4
Snowed Inn with a Suspect
A memoir retreat is cut off by a lake-effect storm, and its famous instructor is found dead after every exterior door was alarmed shut.
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Book 5 · Series finale
The Bell at Closing Time
At the full reopening gala, the lawyer who can protect the inn rings the desk bell three times—an old Ashworth signal no outsider should know.
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The audiobook shelf
Eight parts are already waiting.
Books One through Four are available as two-part audiobooks. Book Five will join the playlist after its video edition is finished.
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