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Come Shell or High Water

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by Molly MacRae
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When widowed folklorist Maureen Nash visits a legendary North Carolina barrier island shell shop, she discovers its resident ghost pirate and the mystery of a local's untimely death . . .
As a professional storyteller, Maureen Nash can't help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The store is famous with shell collectors, but it's the cryptic letters from Allen Withrow, the shop's owner, that convince Maureen to travel to the small coastal town in the middle of hurricane season. At the very least, she expects she'll get a good story out of the experience, never anticipating it could end up a murder mystery . . .

In Maureen's first hours on the storm-lashed island, she averts several life-threatening accidents, stumbles over the body of a controversial Ocracoke local, and meets the ghost of an eighteenth-century Welsh pirate, Emrys Lloyd. To the untrained eye, all these unusual occurrences would seem to be random misfortunes, but Maureen senses there may be something connecting these stories. With Emrys's supernatural assistance, and the support of a few new friends, Maureen sets out unravel the truth, find a killer, and hopefully give this tale a satisfying ending . . . while also rewriting her own.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Haunted Shell Shop Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 25, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781496744296

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781496744296
      • File size: 884 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      June 20, 2024
      Maureen Nash travels to Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, before the island has reopened to tourists after a hurricane to meet shell shop owner Allen Withrow. After rescuing a beautiful carved shell from the ocean, she manages to electrocute herself at Withrow's shop and is found by elderly brother and sister Burt and Glady Weaver. After coming to, Maureen remembers stumbling over a body. Skeptical, the Weavers go with Maureen to search for it, with a disembodied voice telling Maureen to look by Ikey D.'s grave. The voice belongs to a ghost, pirate Emrys Lloyd. After finding Withrow's body, Maureen investigates, with Glady's and Emrys' help, after she learns she is a suspect in the murder. It takes a minute for Maureen to accept she is not hallucinating, as only she can see Emrys. A strong sense of place, a sympathetic heroine, and an opinionated ghost will appeal to fans of Carolyn Haines' Sarah Booth Delaney cozies.

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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  • English

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