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The Foundation Crack: An Agate Reach Mystery
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The storm took half the roofs in Agate Reach. The man who came to fix them took a great deal more.
March on the Oregon coast arrives the way it always does, sideways and loud, and by morning there are blue tarps on every other house from the harbor up to the bluff. Then the trucks roll in. Clean white paint, magnetic signs, a handshake for everyone.
Nate Garrett is charming in the way that makes people feel chosen. He remembers your dog's name. He fixes the small thing for free and waves off the money. Inside a week he is leaning on the counter at the bookshop, buying a round at the Wharf Pot, standing on the porch of June's B&B with a coffee in his hand, and half of Agate Reach has pressed a deposit into his palm and thanked him for the privilege.
Margot Slade is the only person in town who is not charmed.
She is still the newcomer here, still the woman whose husband turned out to be a fraud, and she knows better than anyone how it feels to be the last one to see the obvious. She would rather be wrong. She would rather spend the spring walking the bluff trail with Deputy James Keller, who is patient and dry and has started looking at her the way nobody has in a very long time.
Then Ed Barlow, a retired builder who asked one question too many about the lumber on his own job site, is found dead, and the county calls it an accident.
Margin has opinions about all of this. The tuxedo cat starts hauling things home through the gap in the back door. A wood chip. A scrap of paper. Objects that were not lying around by accident.
Nobody in Agate Reach wants to hear it. But Margot has already been the woman everyone felt sorry for, and she is not going to stand in the fog and watch it happen to someone else. With June, with Fern, with Keller, and with one relentless cat, she starts pulling a thread that runs a great deal further than one storm and one small town.
The second Agate Reach Mystery. Pour something hot, listen to the rain, and watch a very polite woman take a con artist apart. Includes an afterword on real contractor fraud and how to spot it coming.Also in
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