The Inn at Holiday Bay: Clue in the Carriage House by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2023-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Georgia decided to offer our guests the option of dining either on the patio or in the dining room. It was too nice of a day not to suggest the outdoor option, and she figured it wouldn’t be all that hard to serve the meal in both locations if required. As it turned out, everyone chose to eat outdoors, so Georgia decided to serve the meal buffet style, allowing everyone to sit where they wanted and pace their meal in a manner that worked best for them.

Colt had called earlier to inform me he planned to be by for dinner but would likely need to leave after eating rather than staying over, as I’d hoped he would. I understood he had a lot of irons in the fire and was trying to get things caught up before his niece and nephew arrived, but it had been a while since we’d had any couple time, and I was beginning to miss him. I knew he wasn’t intentionally avoiding me and that he had a lot of really important things on his plate, so I tried my best to be okay with the recent changes in our relationship.

“So, how did the sleuthing go today?” I asked Joel, George, Savannah, Emma, and Mick after joining them at the table for eight that they’d settled around after greeting Emma and welcoming her back to the inn.

“It went well for a first day out,” Joel answered for the group. “George, Mick, Savannah, and I picked Emma up at the airport, and then we all headed to the county offices, hoping to find some information from old files we suspected were stored there.”

“And did you find anything?” I asked.

“We did, although not what we hoped to find,” George answered.

I waited for him to elaborate.

Savannah picked up the thread. “We hoped to find coroner reports and copies of death certificates for the four men. It’s our current theory that the men all died while staying at the resort where they’d come, hoping to find healing. It made sense to us that if these men were old and/or sickly, and had come to the resort to soak in the healing water that the resort claimed to have contained in the pool, then it fit that they may have died while in residence.”

“But what we found,” Mick said, “was a huge black hole.”

“Black hole?” I asked.

Joel answered. “We found evidence in the guest books that all four men we’ve identified whose names were written on the boxes in the carriage house did check into the resort. We found multiple guest book entries for all the men, although some wrote more frequent and longer entries than others.”

“And the entries didn’t provide any relevant information?” I asked.

Joel shook his head. “The accounts provided by the men seemed to just stop. There was never any mention of checking out or going home, so we all assumed the men had died while in residence. Using this logic, we assumed we’d find a report or at least a death certificate at the county coroner’s office.

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