Autumn at the Grand
Caldmere Grand Hotel, Caldmere
State Senator Aldous Pemberton collapsed in the Grand Hotel's Promenade Dining Room on Friday evening and was dead before the ambulance reached St. Clair Medical. The initial assumption was cardiac arrest. The medical examiner's preliminary toxicology report — filed before dawn — suggests otherwise.
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.
Tends a remarkable garden on the island. Supplies herbs to Wren & Finch and makes tinctures half of Caldmere swears by. Has a knowledge of plant toxicology she frames as 'folk medicine.'
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.