The Inn at Holiday Bay: Portent in the Pages

A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn’t seem to convince to leave, and a new family she’d never be able to live without.

In book 16 in the series, Abby is offered the chance to participate in an author event being held at Firehouse Books with one of her own favorite authors. When the guest author turns up dead, Abby realizes that clues to the author’s death could be found in the new novel the woman had yet to release. Using her own sleuthing skills, Abby jumps into the investigation after it becomes clear that it just might take an author to find the meaning in the pages.

Meanwhile it is weeks before Halloween and the inn is filled with guests looking for a spooky weekend retreat. Join Abby, Georgia, Jeremy, Nikki, and Mylie as they host a series of events designed to provide thrills and chills to all who dare to venture within.

Valorie
5.0 out of 5 stars 
Great book!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2025
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I love this series, it gets better every book!!!!
Abby and Georgia are getting ready for a very busy weekend. Abby has a book signing weekend with four other famous authors at Firehouse bookstore first Thrills and Chills Weekend book fest. Georgia, Jeremy and Julie are getting for the Inn's Harvest festival and Holiday Bay is having their Halloween Thrillerfest.
Abby is having a few of "author stalkers" they follow authors around the country to their book signing events.
Lonnie and Colt have a gig in Bar Harbor, so Abby and Lacey go and see Loretta there a past guest from the Inn, A famous country western singer.
Loretta's been struggling with a lost in her life, and she wrote a song about. And that what the last song she sung.
But back at the book signing with Abby the headliner author failed to show up for the book signing especially after the meet and greet dinner the night before.
What is going on two women both met with an unexplained demise.
You have to get the book cause there is so much going on I don't want to spoil it!!!!!