Shoreline Secrets
Some towns keep their secrets buried. Nora Brennan makes a living digging them up.
At sixty-three, newly divorced and freshly retired, private investigator Nora Brennan buys a butter-yellow 1970s VW bus named the Marigold and points it down the Oregon Coast. The plan is simple. Drive slowly, breathe the salt air, and let the wide gray sea wash off thirty years of other people's troubles.
The coast has other plans.
In one quiet harbor town after another, Nora keeps finding deaths that are a little too tidy, staged to pass for accident or bad luck. She has spent a career noticing the small things everyone else walks past, a coffee left unstirred, a bookmark that does not belong, a pin worn by the wrong person. One by one the details refuse to sit still, and they all seem to lead back to the same place, a long-ago summer archaeology field camp on a windswept stretch of shoreline where something was found, and then quietly lost.
There are rumors of a Spanish galleon and its scattered cache. There is a manuscript that was never published and someone who does not want it read. And there is a charming traveling stranger who always seems to roll into town just before Nora does.
Between roadside diners, foggy headlands, and the kindness of the people she meets along the way, Nora follows a trail that turns colder and more personal at every mile marker. To learn who is really writing these endings, she will have to trust her own eye, her old instincts, and a bus that was never built to outrun anyone.
Shoreline Secrets is the first book in the Pacific Coast Secrets series, a cozy mystery for readers who love a sharp older heroine, small coastal towns full of character, slow-burn clues, and a mystery that rewards paying attention.
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