The Bell at Closing Time

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At the Second Chapter Inn's full reopening gala, the preservation lawyer who may be able to protect the property rings the front-desk bell three times—an old Ashworth signal no outsider should know. Before the night is over, she is dead.

The gala has gathered donors, family, former guests, and people whose history with the inn was never meant for public display. A re-sewn ledger, a disputed debt, old master-key numbers, and funeral-lily pollen at the service entrance connect the murder to the building's most protected stories.

Meg Ashworth has spent two years saving the inn by learning how to stay. Now she and Chief Armand Desrosiers must uncover what the bell meant, who answered it, and whether preservation can protect a place without erasing the people who paid its hidden costs.

The Bell at Closing Time is Book Five and the series finale of The Second Chapter Inn Mysteries, a warm, clue-forward cozy mystery series about rebuilding a lakeside Vermont inn—and a life—room by room. No gore, no romance for the sleuth, and a fair-play solution.

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