Bled and Breakfast — Tony Nash

Harry Mann's Saturday afternoon is disturbed by his boss, DCI Tony Dyce.
A retired major, now an hotelier, has been shot, and Harry has drawn the short straw.
He quickly establishes that Jonathan Franklin did not take his own life, and at first imagines the death to be a one-off domestic affair, but it is only the first of a bizarre set of hotelier murders that have no apparent common thread. There is no shortage of suspects: at least twenty people had strong motives for the first killing alone, including every one of the colourful and unusual members of Franklin's own household.
Also in the background is the shady Landenar Corporation; which is buying up hotels and B&Bs all over the county, committing crimes against family animals and property whenever their offers to purchase are refused. Murder could also be on their agenda.
The deaths are not Harry's only problem. Patti, his new partner, is acting strangely and then attempts suicide. He saves her, but with unbelievable after-effects on his own post-bereavement depression.
He and his team are beginning to believe that the murders subsequent to Franklin's could be to ‘Hide the Lady', where innocents are killed to throw investigators off the track, but then Harry discovers that three of the deaths are connected by a disastrous incident in Afghanistan, and a desire for revenge.
When he is realises who carried out the murders he is faced with the biggest problem of his professional life. He has a momentous decision to make, and things will never be the same again.