Death at Moonhaven Light

About this book

The kind of mystery that makes you miss the Maine coast even if you've never been there.

For readers who want their mysteries with a ghost who has opinions and a dog who has standards.

Sam Blackwood hadn't spoken to her grandmother in thirty years. When a lawyer called at three in the morning to say Eleanor was dead and had left her everything, Sam drove up to the Maine coast to sign the papers and close the house. She had a manuscript due and three ferns that needed watering.

The ferns are still in the car.

Moonhaven sits on a cliff where the fog comes in every evening off the Atlantic and never quite leaves. It sells itself as charming. Sam has spent thirty years learning what a place looks like when it's decided very carefully what to remember and what to bury. She recognized it in about forty minutes.

Her grandmother's Border Collie was waiting behind the front door. Moss is silver-muzzled and unhurried, and he looked at her like she was simply, unforgivably late. Behind a painting in the bedroom was a hand-drawn map — a sealed chamber beneath the lighthouse, blocked since 1923. In the kitchen was a ghost.

His name is Ezra Moonhaven. He built this town and died in it, and he has been waiting a hundred years for someone stubborn enough to listen. Sam didn't plan on being that person.

She's a homicide detective. He's a hundred-year-old cold case with opinions.

Sam didn't know Eleanor. She's starting to think she should have. And beneath the lighthouse, sealed since the year Ezra died, is something three families have spent a century making sure nobody finds.

Sam has the map. She's finishing what Eleanor started.

The Moonhaven Mysteries — Book 1 of 8 Each book is a complete mystery. The series rewards reading in order.

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

Fans of Angie Fox, Jenna St. James, and Nellie H. Steele will feel at home here.