The Gated Garden
Cliff Walk Estates, Caldmere
An estate appraiser is found beaten and locked inside a Cliff Walk greenhouse — and the private security consultant who was supposed to be keeping watch insists the grounds were sealed all night.
Everyone has something to hide.
The grand dame of Cliff Walk. Hosts the annual Caldmere Charity Gala, sits on the hospital board, and dispenses judgment on everything. Widowed twice. Both husbands left her everything.
Harriet's head of security and the Cliff Walk's unofficial enforcer. Ex-military intelligence. Impeccably professional and unsettlingly calm.
Third-generation hotelier who knows every room, every hidden passage, and every regular's secrets. Precise, warm with guests, and quietly furious about the renovation that gutted the hotel's character.
Can you name the culprit?
Read the case file, interrogate the suspects, and make your accusation — five guesses to crack it. The deduction board and the solution are for detectives only.
Caldmere, Maine.
A small town on the Maine coast where everyone knows everyone, and nothing is quite what it seems. Explore the locations and characters behind every case.