The Murder Inn

From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, Bill Robinson returns to the rocky shores of Massachusetts where he must solve a string of murders if he wants to save his inn. The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked. Until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulders. There’s another newcomer in town who puts the Inn under surveillance. When the surveillance turns into a series of attacks. Robinson launches an all-out fight to defend his town, his chosen family, and his home.

The luck of the Irish runs out for a professional poker player in this mystery set in County Cork that will “will leave cozy readers well satisfied” (Publishers Weekly). A poker tournament in the small village of Kilbane in County Cork is drawing players from across the country, but none more famous than Eamon Foley. A tinker out of Dublin, he’s called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is found at the end of a rope, swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack’s pub, it’s time for the garda to take matters into their own hands. Detective Sargent Macdara Flannery would lay odds it’s a simple suicide—after all, there’s a note and the room was locked. But officer Siobhán O’Sullivan suspects foul play, as does Foley’s very pregnant widow. Soon it’s up to Siobhán to call a killer’s bluff, but if she doesn’t play her cards right, she may be the next one taken out of the game.

It's the perfect getaway. But the past will always find you . . .Since leaving the Boston Police Department, Bill Robinson has run The Inn by the Sea in Gloucester, Massachusetts. There he offers a safe and supportive home for his long-term guests.That tranquil life, however, is about to be shattered.Two murderers are heading to Bill's door.One needs his help to evade the cops. The other plans to kill again to silence the truth.Standing in their way are the residents of the Inn. And not everyone will get out alive.

Newly wed Sandy Evans, the new owner of a bed and breakfast inn in Washington DC, believes the former owner was murdered. She, the efficient house-keeper Noah and her step-daughter Janie set out to prove it. They question the seven people staying at the inn at the time of the murder and they learn that three of them were contestants in a television contest. Sandy reports their progress in nightly telephone conversations with her husband Joey and her twin sister Alison and eventually finds some answers. This is the first in the Murders In The Inn series.