Palmetto Key is a private island without roads, without reliable cell service, and without many good explanations for why a retired maritime explorer drowned in the waters he'd spent forty years learning. Callie Vance arrives by ferry with a rolling case, a camera bag, and a Bloodhound named Winston who has already decided the island has something to say.
The estate of Garrett Alcott should be straightforward work—catalog the charts, the instruments, the lifetime of careful observation a man accumulates when the ocean is his profession. But Garrett's charts don't add up. Some have been altered. And the record he left behind—meticulous, thorough, the documentation of a man who never let an anomaly go unexplained—points toward something happening in the protected waters south of the island that someone needed him not to notice.
With no technology to lean on and no quick trip to county records, Callie has to work the island the old way: on foot, on instinct, and with a dog whose nose is tracking something the altered charts couldn't erase.
The Tropical Trace is the third book in the Estate Sale Mysteries—a clean, sun-soaked cozy mystery where the evidence is in the water, Winston earns his keep, and getting off the island requires solving the case first.
Genre: Mystery
The estate of Garrett Alcott should be straightforward work—catalog the charts, the instruments, the lifetime of careful observation a man accumulates when the ocean is his profession. But Garrett's charts don't add up. Some have been altered. And the record he left behind—meticulous, thorough, the documentation of a man who never let an anomaly go unexplained—points toward something happening in the protected waters south of the island that someone needed him not to notice.
With no technology to lean on and no quick trip to county records, Callie has to work the island the old way: on foot, on instinct, and with a dog whose nose is tracking something the altered charts couldn't erase.
The Tropical Trace is the third book in the Estate Sale Mysteries—a clean, sun-soaked cozy mystery where the evidence is in the water, Winston earns his keep, and getting off the island requires solving the case first.
Genre: Mystery
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