Murder at Frost Hollow Lodge: A snowed-in will-reading cozy mystery with a blizzard, an old family fortune, and one guest who won’t make it home

About Murder at Frost Hollow Lodge: A snowed-in will-reading cozy mystery with a blizzard, an old family fortune, and one guest who won’t make it home

Murder at Frost Hollow LodgeHollow Hearth Mysteries · Book 2A snowed-in will-reading cozy mystery with a blizzard, an old family fortune, and one guest who will never make it homeMara Linden thought she was getting a quiet weekend in the woods. Instead, she gets a dead body in a glasshouse. When Quinn drags Mara to Frost Hollow Lodge for the reading of Quinn’s late grandmother’s will, it sounds almost relaxing.

Remote lodge, crackling fire, a few estranged relatives and an eccentric lawyer. Mara even packs a small emergency candle kit, just in case the ancient wiring does what ancient wiring always does. The blizzard hits faster than forecast.

Roads vanish. Power and cell service go down. By morning, one of the heirs is lying dead in the greenhouse, frozen stiff with a head injury and a trail of half-melted footprints behind them.

The lodge whispers about ghosts. The police will not arrive until the plows can get through. Which leaves Mara, Quinn and lodge cat Cinder to sort living liars from the dead.

Every guest has a different version of the woman they are about to inherit from. Every version hides something. The will reads like a psychological test, pitting cousins against each other and dragging up old family crimes.

Someone uses Mara’s own candles to fake the timing of the power cut, turning her “just in case” kit into a ticking clue. As Mara picks through family legends, staged scares and the very real storm outside, she discovers that Quinn’s grandmother once chaired the same youth program that funded the Halloween party where Lena Pell disappeared. A missing box of Polaroids and a torn flyer marked “Sleepy Hollow Lane” suggest the lodge is tied to Evergreen Hollow’s oldest secret.

The truth behind the murder is human, not supernatural. It lives in long-term control, financial leverage and one heir who is finally done being told who they are allowed to be.