The Inn Game and Sins of Kot-Do-Init

According to legend, four hundred years ago, in a place now known as the State of New Hampshire, fur trader Hiram Horne was banished by Passaconaway, chief of the Pennacook Indians, after Horne was caught "doing it" with the tribe's cook, Pretty Feather. Horne, with his wife and five children, traveled north to the White Mountains, where he founded the village of Kot-Do-Init. In 1970 the fictional village has a year-round population of 2,700, rising to 4,500 during peak tourist seasons.
Pam and Michael Tatum are the owners of the Kot-do-init Inn. The story opens with the discovery that their newly hired bellboy has been stealing women's pink panties from the guests.The day before the stolen panties story breaks, Jim White, the maintenance manager of the Kot Mountain Skimobile, dies from a late night fall from the skimobile chairlift. He was riding it with Claire Dynor, unbeknownst to their spouses, which spawns a second scandal in the small town. Both are topics of conversation at the Happy Morning Café between gossip collector Isaac Whitney and ski instructor Sam Bennings, a part-time investigative reporter for the Kot-do-Init Weekly News. Sam has a thing for Happy Morning waitress Macy Hicks, who's been dating wealthy playboy, Andrew Lewis, who is under suspicion for the mysterious skimobile death. Roger Sundbee, a freelance investigative reporter, arrives in town. He will be recognizable to readers of Riehl's earlier books Freedom's Sins and Deception's Sins. He joins in the investigation of Jim White's fatal accident. This is the story of the owners of a ski resort, who try to entertain vacationers while small town gossip and the hunt for a madman swirl around them.