I read this book in 2017. The book I'm looking for started out with a woman answering her phone and a man saying that he needed someplace to bury a body. It turned out he was an author and the hotel he was calling was some kind of writer's retreat. I remember the owner/manager of the B&B/hotel was standing in the lobby looking at a painting I believe it was a ship caught in a storm on the ocean, she had been looking at it for years and was wondering what the artist was trying to convey.
Thank you for any help! : )