The Locked Affair

The millionaire's panic room was built to
keep death out. It never occurred to him
that death was already inside.

When tech millionaire Julian Cross is found
dead inside his own sealed panic room — no
weapon, no exit, door locked from within —
DI Elara Voss arrives at Harlow House to
face the most impossible crime scene of
her career.

The evidence points everywhere at once.
Julian's wife knew about the affair. His
best friend built the company around him.
His mistress ran the private art gallery
where she wore the only shade of lipstick
that matches the smear found inside the
ventilation duct.

Three suspects. One sealed room. A murder
weapon that simply does not exist.

But Elara has learned one thing in fourteen
years of this work — impossible rooms have
explanations. You just have to be willing
to find them, even when the explanation
leads somewhere you never expected to look.

Because this affair was never between
two people. It was between three. And one
of them has been planning this since before
the body was cold — with a replica room
built inside a gallery, a poison compound
hidden in a dinner tray, and a love so
twisted it became the deadliest weapon
of all.

Perfect for fans of gripping psychological
mysteries, locked room crime fiction, smart
female detective series, domestic noir with
shocking twists, and police procedurals
where nobody is what they seem.

The Locked Affair is Book Six of the
Crestwick Mysteries. A new detective.
A new kind of darkness. The same truth
that has always been at the heart of
this series — no one, no matter how
carefully they have built their room,
is above the law.

The door is sealed. The secret is inside.
And Elara Voss always finds the key.