DEATH AT HARROW POINT

About this book

At 2:12 on a Saturday afternoon in February, a woman who isn’t from Rockland calls the police: the archivist is down in the basement. At 3:15, Margaret Wills is alive at the post office, mailing something. By evening she is dead in her own archive.

The police call it a cardiac event. But the Foundation file open on her table was back on its shelf before they arrived. Whoever was with her tidied up.

SAM BLACKWOOD spent thirty years in Portland homicide. Ten days after Greyfell she drives down the Maine coast and finds that Margaret has left her an envelope: For the next Blackwood, when she comes.

It sends her to Thomaston, to Dennis Calloway, eighty-three, the last of four generations who kept the basalt under the Harrow Point pilot station. His father pressed a palm to that wall every week because it felt like a compass finding north. In March 1978 a pleasant young man showed Dennis eight photographs of his children. Dennis stepped back. Margaret’s letter is clear: don’t go there to judge him. Go there to understand.

Two Knox County nodes were never destroyed. Their signals sit sealed in basalt cylinders in federal custody in Boston, and the containment is failing. Sam has six weeks, and she can’t do it without the man who stepped back.

With her: Ezra, the ghost in her opal ring; Moss, Eleanor’s Border Collie, who inspects every doorway before the man in it; Rowan, who loads the cold-water kit before anyone asks; and Lucy at Salt & Sage, who has kept one promise for two and a half years.

THE MYSTERY

Someone knew Margaret would go down before she did. That afternoon she mailed a package to a man who never answers his phone. A key is missing from the hook by the alley door. Sam must work it out herself, before a low tide gives someone thirty-four minutes on the eastern ledge, the stone the Calloways never called theirs.

And when Moss barks, it is only the third time Sam has ever heard him.

Eight days later, with two texts from Marta Voss still unanswered, the ring on Sam’s hand begins to cool from the west.

A paranormal cozy mystery with March mud, eggs for five, a ghost, a dog with standards, and a family of Maine pilots.

Death at Harrow Point continues The Moonhaven Mysteries. Each book solves its own case, while a larger mystery runs through the whole series, best enjoyed in order.

Stand on the eastern ledge with Sam and count down the thirty-four minutes.

Book 1: Death at Moonhaven Light
Book 2: Murder at Moonhaven Light
Book 3: Secrets at Saltwick
Book 4: Murder at Stoneharbor
Book 5: Murder at Cairn Cove
Book 6: Murder at Tidefall
Book 7: Shadows at Greyfell
Book 8: Death at Harrow Point
Book 9: Murder in the Old Wood
Book 10: The Last Light at Moonhaven