Book Two · Preorder · 1 August 2026

The Holiday Let Murder

Every smart device in the cottage went dark on Sunday evening. The cottage kept taking notes.

Six months after The Blueprint Murder, Margot Finch is doing the closest thing to ordinary work she has managed in a year — a Gazette feature on holiday lets and the slow squeeze on housing in Cresthollow Bay. The interview shortlist has Hugh Tremayne at the top of it: bluff, hearty, generous in a way that demanded gratitude, landlord of four cottages he was very pleased with and the town was not.

On Monday morning Margot is two doors down with her solicitor, viewing a small cottage she is not sure she wants, when Hugh’s body is found at 9:14am inside Trevern Cottage. Constable Suggs arrives twenty-six minutes later and says, flatly, that he would very much like her to be there for the viewing and not for any other reason.

The crime scene is competent. Cameras dark. Smart speakers unplugged. Doorbell disabled. The killer knew exactly which devices to silence — and missed the one humming quietly behind a sealed cabinet on the kitchen wall, logging every circuit on its own private channel for the last six months.

The Holiday Let Murder is the second Cresthollow Bay Mystery — warm, witty, and dark without being grim. Every clue is visible on the first read. Every clue is more satisfying on the second.

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