Sea Gull Cottage at The Breakers: A Palm Beach Mystery of a 1944 Death

Set between December 1943 and April 1944, with a later thread in January to February 1950, this story unfolds within and around a grand Palm Beach hotel that once served a very different purpose.

In 1950, a young woman arrives at the hotel with her husband, intending only to spend a quiet season and pay respect to her father, an Army officer whose death during the war was long ago recorded as routine. The hotel, restored to elegance, carries itself with confidence, yet certain spaces feel to...