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A novel by Aline Rosenthal

The Guest Book

They signed in as strangers. The guest book remembered them.

Yorkshire mysteryBuried crimeLocked-room suspense

The story

Six former school friends arrive at a remote Yorkshire B&B pretending not to know one another. Their sweet elderly host welcomes them by name, even though none of them used their real one.

The guest book remembers a buried crime from twenty-five years earlier. Cut off by worsening weather, the group begins to die one by one, and the woman serving tea may be the only person who knows why.

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“Alice woke with grit between her teeth and somebody arguing outside the door.”

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