What the Tideline Keeps
(2026)(The first book in the Crestwick Harbor Mystery series)
A novel by J Jasper North
When forensic appraiser Margot Moss inherits a waterfront gallery in Crestwick Harbor, Virginia, she expects to spend a few quiet weeks sorting antiques, settling the estate, and returning to her carefully ordered life in Chicago.
But the Tideline Gallery is no ordinary inheritance.
Behind its polished cases and salt-weathered brick lies a collection her great-aunt Agnes spent decades assembling in secret: rare navigational instruments, old shipping records, hidden provenance notes, and a centuries-old astrolabe that may be the key to a lost Portuguese wreck off Osprey Point.
Then a man connected to the maritime antiques trade is found dead inside the gallery.
Now Margot is caught in a mystery that reaches from the cobblestones of Wharf Row to the dark water beyond the lighthouse. The town attorney is too helpful. The Historical Society president knows too much. A guarded salvage expert named Callum Adare may be telling the truth -- but not all of it. And every clue Margot uncovers suggests that Agnes did not simply leave her a gallery.
She left her a task.
As old secrets rise with the tide, Margot must decide who can be trusted, what the past is worth, and whether some histories are dangerous because they were buried -- or because they are finally ready to be found.
What the Tideline Keeps is an atmospheric clean mystery filled with coastal suspense, hidden history, slow-burn trust, and a harbor town where the past is never quite done speaking.
Genre: Mystery
But the Tideline Gallery is no ordinary inheritance.
Behind its polished cases and salt-weathered brick lies a collection her great-aunt Agnes spent decades assembling in secret: rare navigational instruments, old shipping records, hidden provenance notes, and a centuries-old astrolabe that may be the key to a lost Portuguese wreck off Osprey Point.
Then a man connected to the maritime antiques trade is found dead inside the gallery.
Now Margot is caught in a mystery that reaches from the cobblestones of Wharf Row to the dark water beyond the lighthouse. The town attorney is too helpful. The Historical Society president knows too much. A guarded salvage expert named Callum Adare may be telling the truth -- but not all of it. And every clue Margot uncovers suggests that Agnes did not simply leave her a gallery.
She left her a task.
As old secrets rise with the tide, Margot must decide who can be trusted, what the past is worth, and whether some histories are dangerous because they were buried -- or because they are finally ready to be found.
What the Tideline Keeps is an atmospheric clean mystery filled with coastal suspense, hidden history, slow-burn trust, and a harbor town where the past is never quite done speaking.
Genre: Mystery
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