Silhouette of Suspicion. Royal Griffen Hotel Mysteries, #4

They gave me a Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday night. By Monday morning, I was investigating a murder. I am Dora Lee Griffen. Seventy-eight years old, retired fashion designer, and resident of the penthouse at the Royal Griffen Hotel. I have seen a great deal in my years in this industry. Most of it I have kept to myself. That, as it turns out, was a mistake. The night of the awards ceremony, I made a dress for a young journalist named Daphne Holbrook.
She was sharp and brave and asking all the right questions about a pattern of deaths that had been circling the fashion world. She was also, as I know all too well, getting too close to the truth. By morning, she was gone. The police called it a mugging. I called it what it was. Daphne was not robbed. She was silenced. And the woman who made her dress has a very good idea who gave the order, though proof is a different matter entirely from knowing.
In the fourth installment of the Royal Griffen Hotel Mystery Series, Dora Lee trades her awards-night finery for a legal pad and blue ink, enlists the reluctant partnership of Detective Moreno, and follows a dead woman's notes straight toward the most dangerous discovery of her career. Some shadows have deadly designs. And this one has been in the room the whole time. Silhouette of Suspicion is Book 4 in the Royal Griffen Hotel Mystery Series and is best read in order.