The Cartographer's Ghost: A Slow Burn Small Town Cozy Mystery with a Woman Amateur Sleuth and a Bloodhound (A Holloway Antiques Mystery Book 3) - Couverture souple

Penn, C.R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798186602774

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Fourteen maps in a wall. One dead contractor. And a treasure that never existed.

It is February on Palmetto Key, the off-season, when the ferry runs half empty and the marsh keeps its own counsel. Antiques dealer Wren Holloway is expecting a quiet month of consignments and coffee until contractor Pete Gannon calls from a cottage renovation on the north end. He has found maps sealed inside the walls. Old ones, hand drawn, wrapped in oilcloth. One of them appears to mark a Civil War shipwreck off the southern shoals.

Wren needs one afternoon with the paper to know the maps are lying. The surveys are real, beautiful, and meticulous. The treasure is a costume someone dressed them in decades ago. But before she can prove who drew them and why, word leaks, treasure hunters with metal detectors pour off the morning ferry, a developer starts pitching a boutique hotel at The Pelican, and Pete Gannon disappears with his lunch still zipped in its cooler.

When the marsh gives Pete back, the island closes ranks, and Wren’s loupe turns from the maps to the man who owns the cottage walls they came out of. The hidden annotations in those maps reach back sixty years, to the founding families who built Palmetto Key, and to the fraud network her grandmother Margaret spent thirty years documenting alone. Some history refuses to stay in the walls.

With Detective Cal Renner working his first homicide, an island historian whose archives hold two centuries of secrets, and an aging bloodhound whose nose is still the sharpest instrument on the coast, Wren follows the cartographer’s ghost through forged paper, old money, and the kind of inheritance no one wants to claim.

The Cartographer’s Ghost is a warm, wry, fair-play cozy mystery about maps that tell the truth, people who don’t, and a community worth defending. Sweet romance, no gore, no cliffhangers, and a dog who supervises everything. Perfect for readers who love Ellery Adams, Jenn McKinlay, and Kate Carlisle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798186602774
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 205
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