The Last Light at Moonhaven

About this book

The man who started the war is in a federal cell in Virginia. His hired hand has been behind bars since May. So who is still paying to cut the welds on the Maine coast?

Two and a half years after retired homicide detective Sam Blackwood inherited her grandmother’s house on the cliff, the work Eleanor started is nearly done. One node is lost somewhere in the bay. Harrow Point is running on a clock. A law firm in Edinburgh has asked a polite question about the keepers. And one line in Sam’s file has stayed open since spring: who paid for the inspection?

From spring to the hardest freeze of February, Sam works it with two inks in one file and a town that answers the phone before it’s light. And a grieving father who has spent twenty years trying to make the coast give back the one thing it cannot is coming to the eastern ledge to find out for himself.

No guns on the rock. Only the truth, the cold, and fifty minutes of tide.

With Ezra, the sea captain who built the lighthouse in 1873, at her shoulder, Moss the Border Collie at her side, and nine keepers holding a hundred miles of winter coast, Sam has to close the list, end a twenty-year war with mercy instead of a fight, and follow one stubborn paper trail to whoever is still paying.

There is a sentence Ezra has never once finished. A letter Eleanor left in a drawer, not to be opened until the list is closed. And out on the point, a light that has to be lit again tomorrow night, and the night after.

The Moonhaven Mysteries comes home. A warm, haunted small-town paranormal cozy mystery and the series finale: a retired detective, a ghost, a professional dog, and a coast that finds out it is not alone.

The Moonhaven Mysteries, in order:
Death at Moonhaven Light
Murder at Moonhaven Light
Secrets at Saltwick
Murder at Stoneharbor
Murder at Cairn Cove
Murder at Tidefall
Shadows at Greyfell
Death at Harrow Point
Murder in the Old Wood
The Last Light at Moonhaven