DEAD POST SOCIETY (House-Flipper Mystery #7) by Diane Kelly will be released on April 1, 2025, by Minotaur Books.
Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck have been taking a hiatus from the house-flipping business. That is, until they come across an old Victorian house while doing carpentry work at a former boarding school. The old buildings are turned into a retirement community, and the developer plans to level the old house due to its tragic past. Following the murder-suicide of the home’s former owners—headmaster Dr. Irving Finster and his wife, Rosie—the Victorian was abandoned. While working on renovating the Victorian into a bed and breakfast, Whitney begins looking into the two deaths. The more she learns about the victims and the boarding school the Whitney begins to think that both Irving and Rosie were murdered. There are several suspects among the former faculty and student body. And one of them is determined to stop Whitney from continuing the investigation.
All the books in the House-Flipper Mystery series are fun to read. Whitney and Buck make a great team. I’ll admit that Whitney’s immature antics can get annoying. And her confrontation with the beautician in DEAD POST SOCIETY is a bit over-the-top. Overall, I enjoyed the cold case mystery.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.