Death on the Walls: A Dubrovnik Cozy Mystery

The clock tower runs four minutes fast. It's about to become the most important four minutes in Dubrovnik. Travel writer Nora Blake has twelve hundred words to write about the Bastion House, a medieval tower on Dubrovnik's city walls lovingly restored into the Adriatic's most anticipated boutique hotel. Easy assignment. Beautiful city. And Dimitri Alexiou - the security consultant with excellent timing - just happens to have taken a contract there too. Then Dr. Kate Miletic, the historian hired to authenticate the hotel's prized wartime collection, is found dead in the archive chamber the week before the grand reopening. The local police call it a heart condition. Case closed before lunch. But Kate had just found something in the paperwork. Something that would make important people very unhappy. Between a treasurer whose invoices don't add up, a coordinator with six years of resentment, a rising politician whose family legend built his entire campaign, and a voice memo that says Kate was alive at a time she couldn't have been - Nora is definitely, absolutely just here for the article. The killer knows better. And so does the bell on the clock tower - the only witness in Dubrovnik that never lies. Death on the Walls is a twisty, witty cozy mystery set on the sun-drenched walls of Croatia's most beautiful city - zero gore, clever clues, charming suspects, and one detail everyone else missed. Book 2 in the Nora Blake Mysteries. Can be read as a standalone - no cliffhanger, no homework.