Sugar, Sand & Murder

About Sugar, Sand & Murder

After twenty years, Honeysuckle Harbor is reviving its beloved Sandcastle Classic, and the whole town has turned out on the tidal flats with buckets, trowels, and a champion's welcome for the golden boy who won it three times and then vanished. Hazel Brennan has a front-row seat from the Salty Pearl's boardwalk window — until the morning the tide goes out and the returning hometown hero doesn't get up from the sand. Everyone agrees it was a dawn accident.

Everyone, that is, except Hazel, who can't quite square the tidy story she's being handed with the mess the ocean left behind. Wes Amberly came home charming and beloved and hiding rather more than a little, and it doesn't take Hazel long to realize half the Harbor had a reason to wish him ill. But the flats keep their own time, and low tide, as the harbormaster likes to say, tells no lies.

With Frankie, an ever-hopeful Biscuit, sharp-eyed Mia, and Detective Ben Shaw — who's facing a choice of his own about where home really is — Hazel races a closing-day ceremony to reset the clock on a murder the whole town has been reading backward.