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When a visiting historian dies during Founders Week, Tilly Lafleur finds herself drawn into questions about the town’s origins—and the loyalties still shaping it.
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Death at Melvin House
A Tilly Lafleur Mystery - Book Four
Some histories are carefully kept. Others are carefully hidden.
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Balsam Bay Founders Week is meant to celebrate the town’s beginnings—a week of shared history, public lectures, and new and familiar faces. The week centres on the Heritage Museum, once the private home of founder Sam Melvin.
Instead, it stirs up something long buried.
When a minor disturbance in the founder’s study is followed by the death of a visiting historian, the mood in town shifts and conversations grow careful. Old loyalties resurface, and what began as a celebration takes on a sharper edge.
Tilly Lafleur can feel it—the sense that the past is pressing hard against the present. With her daughter Callie pursuing questions of her own and her brother, an RCMP officer, navigating mounting pressure behind the scenes, Tilly must decide how far she’s willing to push in a town that doesn’t welcome certain truths.
Because in Balsam Bay, history isn’t just preserved.
It’s protected.
The Tilly Lafleur Series
This is Book 4 of the Tilly Lafleur Mysteries. Each novel builds on the last, and reading in order is recommended.
