THE BAD DEED
A knock at the door. A dead man's check in his pocket. And Thomas Greene's name signed at the bottom of it.
When a hit-and-run leaves a stranger dead on a dark road near the Southport marina, all the evidence points one direction: straight at Thomas Greene, a real estate man with a silver Mercedes convertible and a hundred thousand dollars riding on a handshake deal gone wrong. The police like him for it. His only alibi is an empty house and his own word.
To clear his name, Thomas turns to the people who actually know him: Tim Mitchell, the lawyer who's been talking him out of trouble for twenty years, one phone call at a time. Mark Sellers, a private investigator who trusts facts over hunches. And Rachel Lemon, the romance novelist two doors down the beach, who reads a courthouse deed the way she reads a plot hole, and refuses to look away from either one.
What starts as a simple question about a dead man's land unravels into something far older and far uglier: a respected attorney, a decade of quiet fraud, and a family secret buried deep enough to get a man killed for finding it. As the threats turn physical and the danger closes in on the people Thomas loves most, the truth waiting at the bottom of an overgrown lot on West Oak Island Drive will cost more than anyone bargained for, and clear more than one man's name.
Set against the salt air and slow tides of the North Carolina coast, The Oak Island Deed is a story about the debts land can hide, the neighbors who become family, and the patient, stubborn work of setting things right.
Genre: Thriller
A knock at the door. A dead man's check in his pocket. And Thomas Greene's name signed at the bottom of it.
When a hit-and-run leaves a stranger dead on a dark road near the Southport marina, all the evidence points one direction: straight at Thomas Greene, a real estate man with a silver Mercedes convertible and a hundred thousand dollars riding on a handshake deal gone wrong. The police like him for it. His only alibi is an empty house and his own word.
To clear his name, Thomas turns to the people who actually know him: Tim Mitchell, the lawyer who's been talking him out of trouble for twenty years, one phone call at a time. Mark Sellers, a private investigator who trusts facts over hunches. And Rachel Lemon, the romance novelist two doors down the beach, who reads a courthouse deed the way she reads a plot hole, and refuses to look away from either one.
What starts as a simple question about a dead man's land unravels into something far older and far uglier: a respected attorney, a decade of quiet fraud, and a family secret buried deep enough to get a man killed for finding it. As the threats turn physical and the danger closes in on the people Thomas loves most, the truth waiting at the bottom of an overgrown lot on West Oak Island Drive will cost more than anyone bargained for, and clear more than one man's name.
Set against the salt air and slow tides of the North Carolina coast, The Oak Island Deed is a story about the debts land can hide, the neighbors who become family, and the patient, stubborn work of setting things right.
Genre: Thriller
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