Before Silence
One final case stands between Emma Chandler and the weekend she will spend the rest of her life wishing she had reached.
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One final case stands between Emma Chandler and the weekend she will spend the rest of her life wishing she had reached.
Emma Chandler comes home to escape murder—and finds a twenty-five-year-old victim waiting at the bluffs.
The stranger at Emma Chandler’s café has a false name, a damaged antique, and only hours left to live.
Gaston Beaumont unveils a priceless wine at dinner; by morning, the bottle is gone, and the chef is dead.
Cal Mercer survives fifteen years in prison for Cedar Harbor’s secret—and less than a week as a free man.
Mark Sterling leaves his coat at Emma’s café and vanishes—until his body turns up without a shoe or the file worth killing for.
Arthur Woods’s killer needs one thing from Cedar Harbor: a natural death certificate.
Lilly Lamar’s final chapter has spent two years behind the wheel of a car at the bottom of a lake.
The Whitcombs put a price on every family secret—except the murdered woman behind the pantry wall.
Walt Greaves tries to reclaim a box of harbor junk—and dies before he can explain which broken piece frightened him.
Marjorie Keats invites Emma Chandler to dinner, promises one explosive correction, and dies before she can hand over the file.
One apple tag exposes a hidden harvest; by morning, the accountant who found it is dead.
Cedar Harbor buried Tom Warren without a body—and thirteen years later, an invoice suggests the lake never had him.
Veronica Northcott decides to extend her summer stay at the Bay Hotel—and someone makes certain she will never leave.
Rosamund Bellamy returns to Penmorrow to put her affairs in order—but someone has already arranged her final appointment.
The last train leaves Penmorrow carrying Lucian’s trunk—and, according to an honest witness, Lucian himself. His body is still inside the Bay Hotel.
Plover returns to Penmorrow harbour without the man who sailed her—and no one can explain how the empty boat came home.
The summer fête ends in triumph—and its treasurer is murdered before the accounts can be settled.
Wheal Rose promises Penmorrow new work—and delivers a body instead.
The storm cuts Carew Lodge off from the world—and leaves a murderer inside.
A locked chandlery, a dead proprietor—and a crime scene built from the wrong instructions.
At Penmorrow’s charity film night, the final reel ends with a man dead beside the exit.
Six cliffside plots appear on a map that should not contain them-and the surveyor who questions them is found dead.
Room 108 hides a dangerous secret-and before midnight, it holds a murdered man.
The Bay Hotel's civic dinner accounts for every guest-yet before the evening is over, one of them lies dead at the harbour office.
At Wychmere Hall, an anonymous letter is never merely anonymous; it is a match held to a room full of dry secrets.
The Thames is beautiful at sunset. It is less beautiful when it gives up a body.
Behind the glass of Bath's grandest winter garden, every jewel catch light. One catches blood.
On the Riviera, a false name can open a villa door. It can also leave a man dead behind it.
At Newmarket, a champion horse is worth a fortune. A dead trainer is worth a silence.
At Glenross House, everyone remembers the bridge hand. The trouble is, memory may be the perfect alibi.
At the Wetherby Hydro, everyone has decided who the murderer meant to kill. That certainty may be the most dangerous clue of all.
An aria can fill a room. It cannot prove who was there.
At a lakeside hotel, the most dangerous thing in the room may be what a witness thinks he saw.
A collection of orchids can be arranged to perfection. A murder cannot.
A promise printed in ink can still leave a village in the lurch.
A cottage offered as a gift can hide a very different set of terms.