The Innkeeper — Luisa Buehler

Renovations turn gruesome when skeletal remains are uncovered in the basement of an old boardinghouse. Forensics adds a twist; the remains were entombed eighty years apart! Separated by age, gender, social status, and basic human rights the mystery of their identities and their deaths is overshadowed by the unlikelihood of their final resting place. Grace Marsden is drawn into the bizarre discovery when early police reports cast suspicion on her friends. That crisis contained, she hopes to curtail further involvement. And does, until she sees the specter of the runaway slave. He waits outside the building that has hidden his remains for eighty years. He looks to Grace for justice and compassion. Could she deny him in death what he fought to gain in life? Book Six of the Grace Marsden Mystery Series by Luisa Buehler, award-winning cozy sleuth mystery writer.