MURDER ON THE AMBER COAST

A luxury hotel. A dead man with too many enemies. And a detective who notices everything.

When Felix Brandauer, wealthy, secretive, and very much despised by the right people, is found dead in his room at the Grand Amber Hotel on the Estonian Baltic coast, Detective Elara Voss arrives to find a cast of guests who all have reasons to have wanted him gone.

The German businessman had spent two decades building a fortune on falsified property records, buried legal disputes, and the quiet silencing of those who knew too much. At the Grand Amber, seven strangers are gathered: a sharp-eyed English widow who may have seen more than she has said, a guarded Estonian architect haunted by a professional betrayal, a Finnish pharmaceutical executive on a supposed holiday with his wife, a composed German historian with a hidden connection to the dead man, a Scandinavian journalist who senses a story and does not know how dangerous it will become, and a Finnish couple who claim to have seen nothing at all.

Then a second guest dies. And Voss understands that the clock has been running from the beginning.

Murder on the Amber Coast is a novel in the great tradition of classic detective fiction, the locked-room atmosphere, the gathering of suspects, the slow revelation of old secrets - updated with a contemporary sensibility and set against the faded elegance of a Baltic spa town where history has left deep and inconvenient marks. It is a story about the weight of past choices, the precise and terrible cost of silence, and the rare discipline of a detective who understands that the truth seldom lies where it first appears.

Detective Elara Voss is a new voice in crime fiction: unhurried, precise, and possessed of the particular stillness of someone who has learned that the most important information in any room is usually the information no one has thought to offer. She does not make speeches. She watches.

Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Tana French, and Ann Cleeves, readers who love atmospheric crime fiction, layered mysteries with unreliable witnesses, and detective novels set in beautiful and unexpected places.

If you enjoy cozy mysteries with sharp teeth, psychological suspense built on character rather than action, or classic whodunits reimagined for the modern reader, Murder on the Amber Coast will keep you reading long past midnight - and will not let you rest until the very last page turns.