In this exciting series starter, four best friends are trapped in a book-themed inn during an ice storm and they must use each of their special skills, as well as a few tips from an armchair-detective grandma, to figure out who killed one of the regular customers. From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Locked Rooms comes a thrilling murder mystery.

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Merrick McGee is having a tough time adjusting to her grannie Ida moving in and disrupting life. She's been sequestered in a small room in the back of a bookstore connected to a book-themed inn and spends her hours trying not to think about what her friends are up to while she’s caring for grannie.

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But when an ice storm hits their town and brings everyone together at the inn, Merrick is stoked to have uninterrupted time with her friends. But then the unthinkable happens and someone is found dead.

With the storm picking up the police remove the body and suggest he died of old age. But to Merrick it seems more like a murder. She begins to investigate only to discover her grannie may be the key to solving the case...