Buried on the Causeway
(2026)(The second book in the Camellia Cove Mystery series)
A novel by Sally Winters
Camellia Cove has a story it tells about a man who disappeared twenty years ago. The story is tidy and sad and almost entirely wrong. When construction work at the causeway turns up what the marsh has been keeping since that autumn, Tessa Keen finds herself working a case the town already believes it closed — and a suspect who has spent two decades making sure no one looked too closely.
Cold cases are different from fresh ones. The evidence is old, the memories are curated, and everyone who knew anything has had twenty years to decide what version of events they're comfortable with. What they haven't had is someone with Tessa's particular skill set — a fraud investigator's eye for the gap between the official record and what actually happened, and a stubbornness that a cold trail does absolutely nothing to discourage.
The marsh gives up its secrets slowly. So does Camellia Cove. Buried on the Causeway is the mystery that proves Tessa isn't a one-case wonder — and that some towns carry their ghosts a lot closer to the surface than they'd like anyone to know.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Cold cases are different from fresh ones. The evidence is old, the memories are curated, and everyone who knew anything has had twenty years to decide what version of events they're comfortable with. What they haven't had is someone with Tessa's particular skill set — a fraud investigator's eye for the gap between the official record and what actually happened, and a stubbornness that a cold trail does absolutely nothing to discourage.
The marsh gives up its secrets slowly. So does Camellia Cove. Buried on the Causeway is the mystery that proves Tessa isn't a one-case wonder — and that some towns carry their ghosts a lot closer to the surface than they'd like anyone to know.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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