The will is a trap. The island is a witness. On Perdita Cay, a private island in the Bahamas, the family of shipping magnate Edmund Ashcombe gathers for the reading of his will. Three nights. One heir. And a storm closing off the only way out. Book conservator Tessa Calloway came only to support a frightened friend. But something about the house won't let her look away - the clean shoes on a wet stair, the glass of rum that's always refused, the ledger no one will open.
Before the will can be read in full, someone on Perdita Cay will make sure it never is. Tessa reads the island the way she reads a damaged binding: for the tear that was made on purpose, and the one that only looks like an accident. A classic closed-circle mystery in the golden-age tradition - for readers who love a house full of suspects and a storm that won't let anyone leave. THE ASHCOMBE BEQUEST is Book One in the Tessa Calloway Mystery series.
The will is a trap. The island is a witness. On Perdita Cay, a private island in the Bahamas, the family of shipping magnate Edmund Ashcombe gathers for the reading of his will. Three nights. One heir. And a storm closing off the only way out. Book conservator Tessa Calloway came only to support a frightened friend. But something about the house won't let her look away - the clean shoes on a wet stair, the glass of rum that's always refused, the ledger no one will open.
Before the will can be read in full, someone on Perdita Cay will make sure it never is. Tessa reads the island the way she reads a damaged binding: for the tear that was made on purpose, and the one that only looks like an accident. A classic closed-circle mystery in the golden-age tradition - for readers who love a house full of suspects and a storm that won't let anyone leave. THE ASHCOMBE BEQUEST is Book One in the Tessa Calloway Mystery series.