Death at High Tide
(2026)(The second book in the Sand Dollar Detective series)
A novel by Marin Wilder
The police called it an accident. His sister never believed them. Now a second Hollander boat has come home empty.Three years ago, charter captain Sam Hollander went into the water off his own boat and never came back. Sand Dollar Cove called it a drowning and moved on. His sister Edie called it something else — and said so, to anyone who would listen, until no one would. So she left a casserole and an unsigned note on a stranger's porch: I think something happened to my brother. I heard maybe you'd believe me.
The eight women of the Sand Dollar Detective Club have barely caught their breath from their first case. Retired librarian Hannah Brooks knows what an archive teaches you above everything: nothing is ever really an accident — only a story nobody finished reading.
And the morning they finally agree to sit in Edie's kitchen and listen, the harbormaster comes up the beach with his cap in his hands. Another Hollander took a sunset charter out at dusk. His boat drifted in on the dawn tide — wheel lashed, running lights still burning, and not one living soul aboard.
Two brothers. Two "accidents," three years apart. A grieving family that owns half the marina and answers no questions. And, threaded underneath all of it, the thing this town has kept quiet for thirty-eight years.
Hannah Brooks has spent twelve years being extremely good at being alone. Edie Hollander is about to cost her that — and Hannah is going to let her.
A librarian, a retired detective, an ER nurse, a teacher, an innkeeper, a realtor, a forensic tech, and a journalist who came here to disappear are the only ones who will say the word this town won't.
Death at High Tide is the second novel in The Sand Dollar Detective Club — a warm, witty, fair-play mystery series for readers of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club, Elin Hilderbrand, and Louise Penny. Every book solves its own case completely and can be read on its own. Together, they unravel the one secret this town would do anything to keep buried.
These are gentle books about hard things. No gore, no grimdark, no cliffhanger on the case — but these women are past fifty, every one of them has lost somebody, and the story knows it. Expect a puzzle you can solve, a town you'll want to move to, and at least one scene that costs you something.
The eight women of the Sand Dollar Detective Club have barely caught their breath from their first case. Retired librarian Hannah Brooks knows what an archive teaches you above everything: nothing is ever really an accident — only a story nobody finished reading.
And the morning they finally agree to sit in Edie's kitchen and listen, the harbormaster comes up the beach with his cap in his hands. Another Hollander took a sunset charter out at dusk. His boat drifted in on the dawn tide — wheel lashed, running lights still burning, and not one living soul aboard.
Two brothers. Two "accidents," three years apart. A grieving family that owns half the marina and answers no questions. And, threaded underneath all of it, the thing this town has kept quiet for thirty-eight years.
Hannah Brooks has spent twelve years being extremely good at being alone. Edie Hollander is about to cost her that — and Hannah is going to let her.
A librarian, a retired detective, an ER nurse, a teacher, an innkeeper, a realtor, a forensic tech, and a journalist who came here to disappear are the only ones who will say the word this town won't.
Death at High Tide is the second novel in The Sand Dollar Detective Club — a warm, witty, fair-play mystery series for readers of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club, Elin Hilderbrand, and Louise Penny. Every book solves its own case completely and can be read on its own. Together, they unravel the one secret this town would do anything to keep buried.
These are gentle books about hard things. No gore, no grimdark, no cliffhanger on the case — but these women are past fifty, every one of them has lost somebody, and the story knows it. Expect a puzzle you can solve, a town you'll want to move to, and at least one scene that costs you something.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Coastal mysteries and small-town secrets, with real emotional weight
Strong female friendships and found family — eight women, eight histories
Fair-play puzzles you can solve alongside the characters
Clean mysteries: no gore, no gratuitous violence, no cynicism
Character-driven crime fiction, where the people matter as much as the case
A long-running series with a secret that unspools across every book
Genre: Mystery
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