Murder at the Water's Edge
(2026)(A book in the Molly McBeal Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Maple Quinn
Someone very powerful has spent twenty years making sure a dead woman’s story stayed buried.
They almost got away with it.
When a stranger arrives in Blue Heron Bay asking questions, someone makes sure she stops asking — and she ends up dead on the beach before she gets her answers.
Now Molly McBeal is investigating a murder she almost walked away from. It reaches back two decades. Buried files. Silenced witnesses. One beloved judge whose reputation depends on the truth never surfacing.
Molly has solved murders before. She has never had to choose between the truth and her oldest friend.
Joan knows something. So does Molly’s dog, whose eyes shifted from clear azure to the color of deep water. They haven’t changed back.
And the civil rights attorney who just drove into town? He’s waited twenty years for this moment. He may be the only person in Blue Heron Bay who wants the truth as badly as Molly does.
In Blue Heron Bay, the summers are beautiful.
The secrets are not.
Genre: Mystery
They almost got away with it.
When a stranger arrives in Blue Heron Bay asking questions, someone makes sure she stops asking — and she ends up dead on the beach before she gets her answers.
Now Molly McBeal is investigating a murder she almost walked away from. It reaches back two decades. Buried files. Silenced witnesses. One beloved judge whose reputation depends on the truth never surfacing.
Molly has solved murders before. She has never had to choose between the truth and her oldest friend.
Joan knows something. So does Molly’s dog, whose eyes shifted from clear azure to the color of deep water. They haven’t changed back.
And the civil rights attorney who just drove into town? He’s waited twenty years for this moment. He may be the only person in Blue Heron Bay who wants the truth as badly as Molly does.
In Blue Heron Bay, the summers are beautiful.
The secrets are not.
Genre: Mystery