
The Guest Who Stayed Behind
Veronica Northcott decides to extend her summer stay at the Bay Hotel—and someone makes certain she will never leave.


The Cornish Hotel Mysteries · BOOK 3
The last train leaves Penmorrow carrying Lucian’s trunk—and, according to an honest witness, Lucian himself. His body is still inside the Bay Hotel.
Available · September 7, 2026
THE COMPLETE SERIES IN READING ORDER

Veronica Northcott decides to extend her summer stay at the Bay Hotel—and someone makes certain she will never leave.

Rosamund Bellamy returns to Penmorrow to put her affairs in order—but someone has already arranged her final appointment.

The last train leaves Penmorrow carrying Lucian’s trunk—and, according to an honest witness, Lucian himself. His body is still inside the Bay Hotel.
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Plover returns to Penmorrow harbour without the man who sailed her—and no one can explain how the empty boat came home.

The summer fête ends in triumph—and its treasurer is murdered before the accounts can be settled.

Wheal Rose promises Penmorrow new work—and delivers a body instead.

The storm cuts Carew Lodge off from the world—and leaves a murderer inside.

A locked chandlery, a dead proprietor—and a crime scene built from the wrong instructions.

At Penmorrow’s charity film night, the final reel ends with a man dead beside the exit.

Six cliffside plots appear on a map that should not contain them-and the surveyor who questions them is found dead.

Room 108 hides a dangerous secret-and before midnight, it holds a murdered man.

The Bay Hotel's civic dinner accounts for every guest-yet before the evening is over, one of them lies dead at the harbour office.