Drowned Mayor of Port Calder
A Maine Coast Mystery

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The biggest tide in a generation came in at midnight. By morning the mayor of Port Calder was dead in the flooded basement of the harbor office, and the whole town had already decided it was an accident.

Detective Sergeant Odile Brandt has come home for one reason: to clear out her late father's house, sign the sale papers and drive away from the fishing port she left twenty years ago. On the kitchen table is a note in the mayor's handwriting, asking her to meet him at the harbor office at eight that morning. He never made it. A stubborn county detective closes the case in a day. Odile cannot. A bolt that should be rusted solid slides like it was oiled last night. A heavy stone that the mayor never forgot to set against the door is sitting on the wrong shelf. And the harbor master's logbook, the one honest record of every fish that ever crossed the wharf, has vanished.

Port Calder runs on the tide. The cannery that feeds a hundred and forty families is about to be sold, the town vote is seventeen days away, and every old school friend Odile left behind has a reason to lie. Every boat, every landing and every alibi has to square with the printed tide table, and the sea has never once lied to anyone.

Odile has until the next minus tide to find out who closed a door on a good man, and who is counting on the water to bury the truth.

A gritty, warm, fair-play police procedural of small-town secrets and salt wind on the Maine coast.