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The Night Clerk

A mystery · By B. Carter

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A Seer Stories novel · B. Carter

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The Night Clerk

A False Name. A Warm Engine. A Guest Who Is Not Who He Claims.

Inside the story

GRAYDON, KENTUCKY • 1993

FORTY ROOM NUMBERS.

THIRTY-NINE GUEST KEYS.

ONE GUEST WHO NEVER STAYED.

At Cedar Court Motor Lodge, the night clerk notices what others overlook: a warm hood, a returned key, a room arranged to look occupied.

A man checks in as Michael Keller. By morning, his car remains, the key is back, and Keller is missing. Then police learn the real Michael was dead before the stranger reached the desk.

Now paperwork meant to be forgotten by dawn is the timeline of a murder. And the man who built the false stay knows exactly whose memory can undo it.

The room was empty. The record was not.

Story
A mystery
Reading order
Reads standalone
Setting
GRAYDON, KENTUCKY • 1993
Availability
Kindle & paperback

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