A Body in the Baggage Room

A sealed room. A missing page. A killer who trusted the records.Depot Days should be a celebration at the Old Depot Market. Instead, a baggage room sealed for years becomes a death scene when retired teacher and longtime Historical Society cataloger Earl McKinney is found beside a fallen ladder.At first, Earl's death looks like a tragic accident. But Amy Ledbetter knows the room doesn't match the work he was doing. And Earl had spent his final days insisting that something was wrong with the depot's old records.Soon Amy is sorting through disputed railroad artifacts, decades-old accession cards, private auction catalogs, and one very important missing page. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that someone has been quietly rewriting Dunley's history-and Earl may have discovered why.With family claims, financial secrets, and small-town loyalties muddying the truth, Amy must separate honest mistakes from deliberate deception before another piece of the past disappears for good.A warm, clue-filled cozy mystery featuring a historic Missouri depot, colorful market vendors, buried secrets, and a heroine learning that running the Old Depot means deciding which doors should stay closed-and which ones need to be opened.Book 2 in the Old Depot Market Mysteries. Each mystery can be read as a standalone.