Tickets Not Included

Six guests. One missing tiara. A weekend spectacularly off the rails.

Larkmoor Inn's latest murder-mystery weekend promises luxury railway glamour without ever leaving the ballroom. For former theatre director Bets Fairweather, it should be a triumph of painted scenery, elaborate costumes, and careful timing.

Then a planned blackout runs long, a tiara vanishes, and an antiques dealer is found dead beneath the old gallery.

Now the ferry is on hold, and everybody has something to explain. As Bets works through the guests' alibis, she discovers that the weekend's prize prop carries a history far more troubling than anything on her character cards.

With help from resident ghost Aubrey Bellamy and Cue, a parrot who remembers far too much, Bets follows a trail of hidden grievances, theatrical mishaps, and secrets from another era. But the investigation is drawing her ghostly friend towards memories he has spent decades refusing to face.

Warmly humorous and threaded with ghostly intrigue, Tickets Not Included is the second book in the Ghost Light Inn Mysteries.