Secrets on the Salt Lane
(2026)(The third book in the Camellia Cove Mystery series)
A novel by Sally Winters
Spring has arrived in Camellia Cove with its usual extravagance — camellias, warm breezes off the harbor, and the Bloom Walk one week away. It is, by all appearances, the best possible moment for a quiet street of small businesses to be thriving. So why does Tessa Keen, standing outside a Salt Lane doorway with a client in distress and a case that officially isn't a case yet, have the distinct feeling that something on this street has been wrong for a very long time?
The answer is in the numbers. It's almost always in the numbers. Tessa didn't spend years in insurance fraud investigation without learning how to read a set of books the way other people read a face — and what Salt Lane's books are saying, quietly and with the confidence of something that has never been caught, is that someone here has been stealing for a long time and has just run into the one person who noticed.
This is the Camellia Cove that tourists never see: the small commerce, the long trust, the particular damage that happens when someone exploits the community that never thought to doubt them. It is also the installment where Tessa stops treating the Cove like a place she moved back to and starts treating it like home.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
The answer is in the numbers. It's almost always in the numbers. Tessa didn't spend years in insurance fraud investigation without learning how to read a set of books the way other people read a face — and what Salt Lane's books are saying, quietly and with the confidence of something that has never been caught, is that someone here has been stealing for a long time and has just run into the one person who noticed.
This is the Camellia Cove that tourists never see: the small commerce, the long trust, the particular damage that happens when someone exploits the community that never thought to doubt them. It is also the installment where Tessa stops treating the Cove like a place she moved back to and starts treating it like home.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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