The Lighthouse at the End of the Lane

Puget Sound, 1888. Mei Lin Fong keeps the Agate Passage light while her father trades with the Mosquito Fleet, and she sees everything that happens on the water — including the argument between Joseph Slocum and the shipping agent named Harrow, two nights before Slocum is found dead at the base of the tower. The territorial marshal rules it a fall and is gone by morning. Slocum's paddle is missing. Harrow is far too polite. Mei Lin has no standing, no vote, no voice the territory is willing to print. So she writes letters under another name, and she keeps the lamp lit, and she waits for someone to believe her. A Victorian historical murder mystery set on Bainbridge Island, for readers of unsentimental, unquenchable heroines.