Getaway With Murder The Mountain Lodge Mysteries

Kelly, Diane

The first in a brand new cozy series from Diane Kelly set in a lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

As if hitting the half-century mark wasn’t enough, Misty Murphy celebrated her landmark birthday by amicably ending her marriage and emptying her nest and bank account. She heads up to the high country and invests her settlement in a dilapidated mountain lodge at the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the old inn teetering on both a bluff and bankruptcy, she must have lost her ever-loving mind.

Luckily, handyman Rocky Crowder has a knack for rehabbing virtual ruins on a dime. To Misty’s delight, the Cackalacky Lodge is fully booked on opening night, every room filled with flexible folks who’d slipped into spandex and ascended the peak for a yoga retreat with plans to namastay for a full week. Everything’s going great until early morning sun salutations on the lodge’s outdoor deck, when the instructor can’t find the priceless antique Tibetan singing bowl used to kick off her yoga practices. Other guests discover they’re missing valuable items, too. Jewelry. Electronics. An expensive camera. And just when it seems opening weekend can hardly be going any worse, a guest is murdered.

With a murderer on the loose and the lodge’s reputation hanging in the balance, Misty must put her own crime-solving skills to the test. Only one thing is as clear as a sunny mountain morning—she must solve the crime before the lodge ends up, once again, on the brink.