The Blackwater Guest: A Lucia Montalvo Murder Mystery Novel

A locked room. A missing woman in the wrong shoes.When Rosa MacKenzie arrives at Lucia Montalvo's cottage before dawn, soaked, desperate, and terrified for her niece, Lucia wants to stay out of it.Then Rosa tells her about Blackwater House.Sir Alistair Blackwater is dead in his locked library. Isla, the missing woman everyone is ready to blame, has vanished from the estate. A note suggests guilt. The family wants silence. The police want evidence. And somewhere inside the old house, someone has already begun rewriting the truth.But one detail refuses to fit.Isla left behind the wrong shoes.For Lucia, that mistake is enough to turn a missing-person case into a murder investigation. As she works beside the sharp, guarded DI Ailsa Grant, every suspect at Blackwater House offers a story polished smooth enough to hide a blade.A son drowning in debt. A widow protecting the family name. An artist with too much to lose. A housekeeper guarding old wounds. A historian who knows which records should disappear.The deeper Lucia digs, the more the case shifts beneath her feet. The locked room was not impossible. The suicide note was not what it claimed to be. And Blackwater House has kept one guest hidden for far too long.

Pagina's: 351, Paperback, Independently published