The Impression

A summer regatta, a buried disappearance, and a small-town cozy mystery that refuses to stay locked away. Corliss Landing is preparing for its river regatta when locksmith Rachel Harlow is called back to the Vane mansion. Water has reached the old wing. Workmen are opening places nobody has thought to examine. And Tumbler is interested in a particular patch of stone. What lies beneath it turns a disappearance from 1957 into a present-day investigation. The house's old story can no longer stand. Then another death makes it clear that someone still has a reason to keep the past sealed shut. Rachel has worked on those doors herself. She knows which keys were issued and what her family's Ledger says about them. But a key can be copied without ever reaching a locksmith's counter, and a few moments alone with the original can leave a secret no tidy inventory will catch. With Nate Brandt facing a professional conflict and old loyalties pulling at the people around them, Rachel must read the difference between recorded access and the access somebody took for themselves. The answer could finally give a forgotten woman her story back—if Rachel can keep the investigation from claiming anyone else. The Impression is Book Eight of The Master Key Mysteries: a clean cold-case whodunit with historic-house secrets, intricate key clues, summer atmosphere, and a partnership tested by the truth. For readers who love: • A buried cold case returning with new consequences • Historic mansions and illicitly copied keys • Summer river-town atmosphere and complicated loyalties • A capable female sleuth and an observant shop cat