The Salt of the Earth

About The Salt of the Earth

Spring thaws Honeysuckle Harbor back to life — fresh paint on the boardwalk, the kite shop's doors thrown open, and the whole town gathered on the sand for the season's first clambake. At the heart of it, as he has been for sixty-four years, is Ollie Pike and his hand-carved carousel, still a quarter a ride, still slipping a free brass token to any child without one. Every adult in the Harbor learned to ride on Ollie's horses, which is why his death on the eve of a signing that would protect the boardwalk forever lands on the town like a stone through ice — and why not a single soul in the Harbor has any doubt about who's to blame. The trouble is that Hazel Brennan has solved five of these now, and she's learned the hard way that the loudest, most obvious suspect is almost never the one who did it. As the town closes ranks around a story everyone agrees on, Hazel keeps worrying at one small, stubborn detail that simply won't fit — and slowly comes to suspect that the answer is hiding inside something the entire Harbor takes completely for granted. In this warm, clever finale, with Frankie, Mia, Biscuit, Nora, and Detective Ben Shaw all beside her, Hazel faces her toughest puzzle yet: a town that talks, that means every word it says, and that may have gotten it honestly, lovingly, unanimously wrong. Sweet, satisfying, and brimming with heart, it's the send-off Honeysuckle Harbor's readers have been waiting for