The Salvage Note: A Cozy Mystery (Salvage Bay Mystery, #1)

When marine surveyor Elias Ward storms into Maren Oakes‘s boatyard during the chaos of Launch Week, clipboard in hand and accusations on his lips, she assumes he‘s just another difficult client. But when Elias ends up dead in her yard - and the cradle pin that killed him turns out to be the wrong size - Maren realizes someone used her own equipment as a weapon. Now her office has been searched. Her notebook has been tampered with. And the salvage paperwork on her most prized restoration project doesn‘t add up. Maren knows boats don‘t lie. People do. With her steady, sharp-eyed girlfriend Simone feeding her soup and hard truths, her loyal assistant Finn piecing together an unsettling timeline, and Detective Jonah Pike reminding her - repeatedly - not to touch anything, Maren follows the trail of falsified paperwork, stolen evidence, and old town secrets deep into the heart of Salvage Bay. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her beautiful coastal Maine town becomes. Because someone killed to keep this buried. And they‘re not finished yet. The Salvage Note is the first book in the Salvage Bay Mystery series - a cozy mystery with a sapphic heart, a cat who solves crimes on his own schedule, and a town that keeps its secrets in the water.