The Ferryman's Widow

Six months after her husband Tomas drowned in a squall off Bainbridge Island, Captain Ingrid Kell still runs the 6:10 a.m. crossing. The crew has closed ranks. The company has moved on. The water hasn't. Then a passenger hands her a soaked envelope found in a life jacket. Inside is Tomas's handwriting: a list of seven names. The seventh is deckhand Rory Prine, who died the same night. The first is Ingrid's own. The squall wasn't the only thing that hit the boat. A yacht ran the ferry's channel without lights, and the company paid the crew to keep it off the report. The yacht's owner is buying the ferry terminal. Ingrid has one thing left of her husband: the truth he wrote down. She is going to read it aloud to the Coast Guard, whatever it costs her crossing. A we solve murders mystery for readers of working-water fiction.