Grand Promenade
Caldmere Grand Hotel, Caldmere
A hotel consultant checked into the Caldmere Grand with a leather satchel and a dangerous habit — collecting secrets. By Tuesday morning, the satchel was missing and someone had made sure Nina Sorel understood the cost of keeping what she'd found.
Everyone has something to hide.
Brilliant, overqualified, and using the concierge desk as a cover for her true ambition: writing a true-crime podcast about Caldmere's unsolved cases. Has a photographic memory for faces.
67. Caldmere's institutional memory. Former Yale research librarian. Precise, genteel, unexpectedly steely. Asks questions that sound innocent and aren't.
52. Retired commercial fisherman, blew out his back at 40. Massive, quiet, runs his bar like a deck — with authority and minimal words. His moral code is simple and absolute. Banned-for-life list is long.
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.