Ledger of Convenience
Caldmere Grand Hotel, Caldmere
Someone has been filing fraudulent invoices against the Caldmere Grand Hotel for eighteen months — and a forensic audit commissioned by its corporate parent, Harwick Hospitality Group, has just confirmed the total loss at $214,000. The question isn't whether it happened. It's who built the paper trail.
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.
The unofficial mayor of the working waterfront. Has run the bait shop for 40 years and knows the tide schedule, every boat's registration, and which marriages are falling apart.
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.