Best Offer Wins: One Deal. Lie. Body.

"Best Offer Wins does what the best thrillers do - it makes you forget you are reading fiction. The stakes feel real because the injustice at the heart of this story is real." - S. Tran, The Literary ReviewNora Belliveau has everything a practical woman could want: a good job in Halifax, a clear head, and a plan. Inherit the house. Sign the papers. Sell the estate. Be back before the weekend. The only catch: the house was never just a house.The key comes first. Small, unremarkable, attached to her inheritance ring with no explanation. Then the room - locked, at the end of a dark hallway, untouched for fifty years. Then the body. A real estate broker, face down in the frost on her third morning in Coldwell Falls, sent by the most powerful family in the county to acquire the estate before Nora had time to look too closely.She looked too closely.What Walter Belliveau left his great-niece isn't a property - it's fifty years of buried evidence against the Hargrave family, a fraudulent 1973 land transfer that stole Mi'kmaq territory and built a dynasty on the lie, and a ledger that names every person who knew and said nothing. Now Nora is the prime suspect in a murder she didn't commit, sitting on proof that could bring everything down, with a corrupt sheriff closing in and a town that closed ranks before she unpacked her bag.Walter spent fifty years building this case. He spent the last four choosing who to hand it to.Nora didn't come to Coldwell Falls to fight. But Walter chose her for a reason - and she is beginning to understand exactly what that reason was. The only way out is through. And Nora Belliveau has always been very good at finding what people need to stay buried.For readers of Tana French, Louise Penny, and Belinda Bauer.