The quiet Strait: Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, Book 6
About The quiet Strait: Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, Book 6
A boat that didn’t come home. A debris field on the wrong beach. A survivor everyone thinks drowned.
Berth Seventeen at Neah Harbor was empty. The Solveig had been due back at first light. The clock at the harbormaster’s office had moved past noon two hours ago.
Three crew members. Cold strait water. Autumn weather building.
By afternoon, the Coast Guard has begun a maritime recovery operation. By evening, debris is washing up on the wrong beach, a beach where the strait’s currents say the wreckage shouldn’t go. By morning, Kate Soren and Scout are working the shoreline, and the dog alerts on something nobody on the recovery team has prepared for.
Live human scent. Heading inland. Two years on the Olympic Peninsula, five cases behind her, and Kate has learned that the strait gives up what it wants to give up and keeps what it wants to keep.
One crew member did not drown. Signe Grieg walked out of the water and into the coastal forest because the sinking was deliberate, an insurance fraud orchestrated by the boat’s owner, Magnar Kleven, who has no idea she survived. Two crew members are dead.
Signe has been hiding for thirteen days. She has been documenting everything she knows. Magnar finds out she’s alive on Day Fourteen.
THE QUIET STRAIT is the sixth book in Sophie Lyon’s Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, a maritime cozy-adjacent procedural set on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the cold, fast, fifteen-mile boundary between the United States and Canada. For fans of Margaret Mizushima, Paula Munier, and Sara Driscoll. What readers will find:A maritime mystery with full Pacific fishing-fleet authenticityA surviving witness who has been documenting from inside the disappearanceK-9 shoreline scent work where maritime debris meets human trailJude Lund and Hemlock achieve K-9 certification, the program comes of ageThe Prescott arc deepens through fishing-fleet financial favorsThe dog always comes home.