On a bright August afternoon, a lobster boat comes into Ashford harbor towing another boat behind it.
Nobody is at the wheel. Three men are dead below.
The whole town knows what happened. A bad exhaust, a closed space, the accident every fisherman fears. Ashford is ready to bury its own and grieve.
Then Nathan Cole asks one simple question.
If all three men were below, who was driving the boat?
Nobody in Ashford has an answer. And the one man who might is suddenly too frightened to speak.
Nathan runs the bookstore on Main Street. He spent twenty years working homicide before a bullet in a parking structure ended it. With reporter Julia Reed beside him, he's about to learn that the quietest harbor on the coast has been keeping a secret, and somebody is willing to kill again to keep it buried.
UNDER TOW is the third Ashford Mystery: a small Maine harbor, a bookseller who can't leave a question alone, and a town worth protecting.
No graphic violence. No profanity. Just a harbor, a lie, and the question nobody thought to ask.
Genre: Mystery
Nobody is at the wheel. Three men are dead below.
The whole town knows what happened. A bad exhaust, a closed space, the accident every fisherman fears. Ashford is ready to bury its own and grieve.
Then Nathan Cole asks one simple question.
If all three men were below, who was driving the boat?
Nobody in Ashford has an answer. And the one man who might is suddenly too frightened to speak.
Nathan runs the bookstore on Main Street. He spent twenty years working homicide before a bullet in a parking structure ended it. With reporter Julia Reed beside him, he's about to learn that the quietest harbor on the coast has been keeping a secret, and somebody is willing to kill again to keep it buried.
UNDER TOW is the third Ashford Mystery: a small Maine harbor, a bookseller who can't leave a question alone, and a town worth protecting.
No graphic violence. No profanity. Just a harbor, a lie, and the question nobody thought to ask.
Genre: Mystery
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