The new Nell Gray mystery, out March 9

The House on the Bluff

A winter storm cuts Harrow Point off from the mainland, and Nell Gray finds a stranger's diary in the one house still lit on the bluff.

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Cover of The House on the Bluff: a lone house on a foggy cliff above the sea

"Moody, funny and very hard to put down. Harrow Point feels like a real town."

Coastal Book Review

"Nell Gray is the sharpest small-town sleuth I have met in years."

Lena Ortiz, author of The Glass Orchard

"I read it in one sitting with the rain coming down. Exactly right."

Pacific Northwest Reader

Miriam Seo at her writing desk by a rainy window

About Miriam

Mysteries written on the Oregon coast

Miriam Seo was a court reporter for 20 years before she wrote her first novel at 47. She lives in Astoria with her husband and a cat named Pickles.

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