THE MISSING KEY AT HONEYFERN INN: A Locked-Room Cozy Mystery

A missing antique key. A locked linen room. And a dead man almost everyone in Merewick had reason to hate.Former museum registrar Clara Vale expected inheriting Honeyfern Inn to mean leaky roofs, restoration bills, and far too many opinions from the residents of a picturesque English village.She did not expect murder.During Honeyfern's restoration weekend, controversial property developer Gideon Pike is discovered dead inside a linen room bolted from within. The inn's antique master key has vanished, Clara publicly argued with Gideon only hours earlier, and the evidence quickly makes the new innkeeper one of the investigation's most convenient suspects.Clearing her name will require skills Clara never expected to use outside a museum.Old inventories. Altered records. Antique fittings. Provenance trails. And the tiny inconsistencies people leave behind when they expect no one to notice.But Merewick is full of people with reasons to lie. A conservation carpenter is hiding forty minutes of his evening. A bookseller has troublesome accounts. Gideon's sister has a private grievance. His business partner is concealing financial records. And someone desperately wants everyone to believe the missing key is more important than it really is.As Clara untangles a clever locked-room murder mystery, she discovers that Honeyfern's history may be hiding another mystery-one connected to her own family and the reason her mother left Merewick decades ago.Warm, witty, and atmospheric, The Missing Key at Honeyfern Inn combines a British village mystery, a clever female amateur sleuth, old houses, buried secrets, and a satisfying fair-play whodunit.Step inside Honeyfern Inn, follow the clues, and see if you can identify the killer before Clara does.