When the body of an unscrupulous land developer washes in
with the tide, there are more suspects than mourners in
the quirky town of Devil's Harbor. Vince Grabowski was
infamous for creating an environmental disaster, hatching
shady investment schemes, and trying to commercialize the
tiny coastal community. A list of who-could-have-done-it
includes Grabowski's less-than grieving widow, her eco-
freak boyfriend, a marijuana-farming ice cream shop owner,
a radio evangelist about to lose her listeners, the
mayor's sex-crazed wife, and a disgruntled artist who
grudgingly perpetuates
a hoax on gullible tourists.
For Molly Donovan, the murder creates an opportunity to
use the crime reporting skills she shelved when her
father's heart attack forced her to return to Oregon.
Chafing under the limitations of writing for The North
Coast Flotsam, she revels in matching wits with
investigators-until the killer frames her father.