**From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of *Things in Jars* who “is so good it isn’t fair” (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a*** *cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.* * *I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret.* 1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent. A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.