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The Lunenburg Widow: A Nora Crane Investigation set on Nova Scotia's haunted South Shore
Paperback
Series: The Nora Crane Investigations, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 16 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For twenty four years, Mara Lantz has been known as the widow of Lunenburg.
Her husband vanished at sea in 1999, leaving behind a blue house, a town full of whispers, and a legend that tourists still come to hear. Some say Mara still waits for him. Some say she knows more than grief should allow.
Then, during a violent autumn storm, a stranger arrives at her door carrying a wedding ring that should have been lost with the dead.
By morning, he is found murdered beside the harbour.
Nora Crane is called to Lunenburg to examine what looks, at first, like a simple killing. But the dead man's pockets contain questions that reach back decades: a hidden adoption, a vanished boy, a ruined photograph, a fire no one wanted to investigate, and a powerful family whose legacy was built on silence.
As Nora follows the trail through archives, old houses, missing records and the polished lies of a beautiful town, she discovers that Lunenburg has not forgotten its ghosts. It has preserved them.
And someone is willing to kill to keep the past exactly where it was buried.
Atmospheric, elegant and morally sharp, The Lunenburg Widow is a haunting Nova Scotia mystery about memory, inheritance, class, grief, and the dangerous stories towns tell about themselves.
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