Some thieves rob a shop. This one stepped over a gold watch to search, drawer by drawer, for a dead man's maps.
In Crescent Harbor, Maine, the bakery is always warm, the violence stays off the page, and the cat knows more than he's letting on.
Sage Holloway-Yates spent eighteen years as a food scientist before she ever proved a loaf of bread — and she still reads a room the way she reads a dough. So when prickly old Reggie Doone, the town's antiques dealer, turns up dead in a shop torn apart to look like a robbery, Sage is the one who notices what doesn't fit: a thief who walked past the easy money to hunt for something far older than cash.
Then her cat, Shadow, carries home a small brass button off a sea coat that went into the harbor a hundred and seventy years ago — the same week a man died over a stolen ship's log. Two things that shouldn't belong together. And Sage has spent her whole life noticing when the numbers don't add up.
To find out who killed Reggie Doone, Sage and her oldest friend will have to pull a long-buried wrong up out of the cold Atlantic, one name and one patient clue at a time. Because someone else is hunting the same secret — and they got to Reggie first.
A warm, fair-play cozy mystery — comfort, not gore.
• A clever amateur sleuth with a baker's eye and a food scientist's logic
• A small Maine town and a found-family cast you'll want to move in with
• A whodunit you can actually solve, if you spot what Sage spots
• Murder kept gently off the page
• Sage's cardamom bun recipe included
The Captain's Log is Book 2 of the Moonlight Harbor Mysteries. Each mystery stands on its own — but in Crescent Harbor, some secrets run deeper than a single season.
