Mystery Novels

Murder at Briarwood Castle Cover
Murder at Briarwood Castle Cover

A secluded island. A gothic castle. A staged mystery weekend that turns terrifyingly real.

A glamorous winter party. A secret rendezvous. A disappearance that will haunt Wintermere House for generations.

Margaret Ellison entered Octavius Manor as a WWII war bride. Eighty years later, Bill didn’t anticipate was how thoroughly the house’s reputation would work against him. Octavius Manor is considered haunted, and finding anyone willing to work on it proves nearly impossible. The deeper Sally looks, the more she begins to wonder if what happened in 1946 was never fully told.

A washed-up motel.
A dead former mayor.
And three women who came to Maine to escape their old lives—not solve a murder.

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A cold case. A buried time capsule. A town that would rather forget.

When Lucy Bennett disappeared from the Starlight Motor Lodge on a sweltering July night in 1976, Maple Hollow made up its mind: she ran away. The police signed off, the town shook its head, and the story hardened into fact.

Her parents never believed it.

© 2026 Tera Leigh

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