Death at Balsam Bay

Tilly Lafleur's father is gone, presumed drowned. She isn't buying it. When his canoe is found battered below Echo Lake Falls, Balsam Bay is quick to call it a tragic accident. But Tilly spent twenty years in search and rescue, and she knows when something doesn't add up. Home for the first time since high school, she finds everyone very sorry for her loss—and already talking about her father in the past tense. The town is split over reopening the abandoned gold mine, and a polished developer is ready to do it. Then the councillor who fought the mine alongside her father collapses and dies at the summer fair. With her daughter Callie, her father's dog Des, and the Balsam Belles—three of the town's busiest gossips—Tilly starts asking questions. But the closer she gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes: Someone in Balsam Bay has a lot to lose if she keeps digging. She came home looking for answers. What she finds is only the beginning. Death at Balsam Bay begins the six-book Tilly Lafleur Mysteries—cozy mysteries with real stakes, set among the lakes and granite of the Canadian Shield. Each book delivers a complete mystery, but the full truth about Tilly's father unfolds across the series. Best read in order.