No Ferry, No Alibi

Harbor master Wendell Croy was stabbed at his desk at 9:50 on a Tuesday morning. The 9:40 ferry to Seattle never left the dock. Which means every passenger in Poppy Nakamura's galley has an airtight alibi—including Poppy. But a fuel line doesn't snap on a calm day, and the island's favorite bookseller recognizes a staged alibi when she sees one. With her ferry-captain ex-husband Bram reluctantly reading maintenance logs, Poppy follows a tampered manifest into a waterfront land grab and a barge the island has kept quiet about since 1974. The developer buying up the shoreline has the motive, the maps, and the nerve to watch the ferry burn. On a reenactment cruise with the whole town aboard, Poppy has one chance to read the truth aloud—and hope the crew remembers whose island it is. For readers of island cozies and unbreakable alibis.