Murder Takes a Holiday

Exclusive, luxurious, and secluded, the Golden Bay Hotel offers guests the perfect setting for a restful holiday – and the perfect opportunity for murder. 

Isobel Taverner hopes that a fortnight's holiday at the seaside will bring her closer to husband, Guy, and help mend their troubled marriage. Dodged by malicious whispers that Guy married Isobel for her vast fortune, the couple are at odds over a recent series of accidents that have imperiled the young heiress' life. Ignoring her husband's advice, Isobel refuses to call in the police, convinced that nothing sinister is afoot. That certainly seems to be the case at the Golden Bay Hotel, where the Taverners are soon joined by old friends and new acquaintances, including celebrated actress Margot Westlake and her newspaper tycoon beau. Everything looks set for a pleasant holiday … until a local scenic spot becomes the backdrop of yet another, nearly fatal accident, and Isobel is forced to confront the possibility that the danger is very real and very close at hand.

When tragedy strikes again, and a body is found on the beach, Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. But it's Margot, not Isobel, who is dead. Beautiful, captivating, and unapologetically flirtatious, the actress found plenty of admirers at the Golden Bay Hotel, not least of all Guy Taverner – and perhaps more than one enemy. But was Margot the intended victim, or did the killer strike down the wrong woman? It's up to Inspector Hawthorne to puzzle out the connection between Isobel and Margot and stop a cunning murderer determined to make the most of their holiday.