Friendsgiving For One: A cozy mystery of reunion, resentment, and one missing guest at a very tense Friendsgiving dinner
About Friendsgiving For One: A cozy mystery of reunion, resentment, and one missing guest at a very tense Friendsgiving dinner
Friendsgiving For OneHollow Hearth Mysteries · Book 4A cozy mystery of reunion, resentment, and one missing guest at a very tense Friendsgiving dinnerFriendsgiving is supposed to fix old friendships. It is not supposed to end with one of your guests found dead over a cliff. When Mara Linden’s college friend Becca begs her to host a “Friendsgiving” in Evergreen Hollow, Mara says yes against her better judgment.
One long weekend, four old friends, too much wine, and a chance to prove she is more than the girl who once wrote a vanished article about a missing teenager. The guest list is a powder keg:Priya, the ethics executive who now moderates other people’s scandals. Lila, a lifestyle influencer who never forgave Mara for “abandoning” the city.
Max, a brand strategist who knows exactly how stories get buried. Jason, an investigative journalist chasing a new podcast about the night Lena Pell disappeared on Sleepy Hollow Lane. Tension simmers under the turkey and candlelight.
Old arguments flare. Jason admits an anonymous source has sent him audio from that Halloween, and Mara hears her own teenage voice inside it. By morning, Jason’s chair at the table is still empty.
His body is lying at the base of the Hollow overlook, a fall that looks a little too neat to be an accident. Snow and rock make the path treacherous, phones glitch, and half the town is convinced this is what happens when you go digging into buried cases. Jonah takes the lead officially, but Mara was in the house, knew the people, and hears the lies they tell each other far too well.
Every friend has a secret glued to their current life:A career built on pretending the Lena article never existed. A brand that cannot survive another internet dogpile. A deal signed with the same donors Mara has suspected for years.
When phone metadata and key-card logs collide with half-forgotten grad school promises, Mara realises one of her oldest friends killed to protect the lie that started everything. To find the murderer, she has to pull apart her own part in the cover-up, call back the one witness she has avoided for twenty years, and decide what matters more: saving an old friendship, or finally telling the whole truth about Sleepy Hollow Lane. Perfect for readers who enjoy:Holiday-set cozy mysteries with a dark emotional coreFound family vs.