Eight Nights at the Harris Hotel

Mrs. Wheeler, a rich elderly widow, arrives at The Harris Hotel, on the Hebridean island Lewis and Harris off the Scottish coast.

There her memories of a dust bowl youth, military service, Chicago’s business and art venues, along with multiple marriage interweave with a guest’s murder.

With the help of her young aide from the island, Mrs. Wheeler is determined to solve the crime … even when experience and innocence are sometimes at odds.

Review from The Laurel of Asheville:

Celia Miles’ new novel, Eight Nights at the Harris Hotel, is a departure from her series of mysteries centering around Appalachian grist mills.

“My inspiration for writing started when my doctor was whistling Mendelssohn’s overture The Hebrides,” says Miles. The Hebrides are an archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland.

“Since I’ve been to the islands often, it suddenly offered my main character, Mrs. Grant Worthington Wheeler.” Set on the Hebridean island Lewis and Harris, the novel offers its elderly protagonist travel and a murder to investigate with the help of a young island girl.

Other reviews: Rapid River Magazine > https://online.fliphtml5.com/tdydk/pxxf/index.html#p=32

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Welcome to the World of Celia Miles

Books & Stories About Women that Will Inspire You

  • A Thyme for Love
  • ThymeTable Mill
  • Mattie’s Girl: An Appalachian Childhood
  • Sarranda 
  • Journey to Stenness
  • Sarranda’s Heart: A Love Story of Place
  • The Body at Wrapp’s Mill: A Marcy Dehanne Grist Mill Mystery 
  • The Body at StarShine Mill: A Marcy Dehanne Grist Mill Mystery 
  • Sarranda’s Legacy: 3rd installment of Sarranda’s saga
  • The Skeleton at the Old Painted Mill: A Marcy Dehanne Grist Mill Mystery
  • The Secret at the Little Lost Mill: A Marcy Dehanne Grist Mill Mystery 

Celia has also written two short story collections: On a Slant: A Collection of Stories, and Islands One and All: Stories and Otherwise.

Her poems (few and far between) and selected short stories have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Old Mountain Press anthologies, WNC Woman, and other publications.

With Nancy Dillingham, she has edited four anthologies of regional women writers: Christmas Presence, Clothes Lines, Women’s Spaces Women’s Places and their latest, It’s All Relative: Tales from the Tree.

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About Celia Miles

Celia Miles, a native of western North Carolina, lives, and writes from Asheville. She writes in various genres and her fiction—all women-oriented—reflects her interests in old grist mills and Neolithic sites around the world.

She attended Brevard and Berea Colleges and has graduate degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and IUP in Pennsylvania. She taught at Brevard College and retired from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College as an instructor.

Her three clean and cozy mysteries feature intrepid Marcy Dehanne, an instructor turned grist mill consultant, who finds that old mills too often harbor a dead body: The Body at Wrapp’s Mill; The Body at StarShine Mill; and, 2020, The Skeleton at the Old Painted Mill.

Her other published works include seven novels and two short story collections—available online and in paperback.

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Discover more about Celia and her thoughts on writing…

Read an interview about Celia’s writing life by NetWest Mountain Writers and Poets.

Also see her “Behind the Scenes” interview on the Mountain Made art gallery blog.