Cordelia Rook

Flapper dresses, sidecar cocktails, and jazz: what more could a girl and her dog want? Minerva is thrilled at the chance to spend a week at the resort, managing a Gatsby-themed role-play event-and chilled when one of the players turns up dead. With a killer on the loose, everyone from the police...

When Minerva identifies a murder weapon as a priceless sixteenth-century artifact, she's sure her eyes must be deceiving her. Even by Bryd Hollow standards, five hundred years seems like an absurd amount of time to hold a grudge....

Delighted by the promise of living and working in a glittering Gilded Age mansion, Minerva Biggs moves to idyllic Bryd Hollow, North Carolina with her dog Plantagenet. She's looking for a new beginning; what she finds is five quite possibly deranged people, four French bulldogs, two distracting...