What Panama Held: A Claire Harmon Mystery - Book 4

By William Gregor

When a Western Caribbean cruise ends with a side trip to Panama City, Claire Harmon expects colonial streets, canal locks, and a week away with the man she loves. What she finds instead is a body in Room 310 of the Hotel Central - a fellow traveler, dead in his chair before dawn, with his jacket on and a glass that tells its own quiet story.

The police seal the hotel. Seven guests wait. And somewhere inside the building, behind a false panel in a room that once belonged to a woman named Bobbie, a sixty-year-old secret is still deciding whether it wants to be found.

What Panama Held is a closed-circle mystery set in the heart of Casco Viejo - the UNESCO-listed old city where five centuries of history press up against the present and where silence, it turns out, is its own kind of inheritance. Claire must untangle a bloodline hidden across three generations, a killer who is genuinely warm, and a journal that was never meant to be read by anyone still alive to act on what it says.

Perfect for readers of Alexander McCall Smith, Richard Osman, and Agatha Christie.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDKMWL2S
• ISBN13: 9798952176072
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: William Gregor
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"