An empty stretch of swampy river, and a silent and merciless death. Margo Fontaine, Private Detective, arrives in Half Moon Bay for the opening of Vinnie Chauvin's new art gallery. The town's elite crowd the ballroom as champagne flows and a violent thunderstorm rolls in from the Gulf. When the party reaches its peak, Chauvin's bleeding body is discovered on the balcony, soaking in the rain. With Sheriff Sam Stark away searching the bayous for a missing child, Margo is forced to take the investigation into her own hands.
But Chauvin was no honest art dealer. As Margo digs into his past, she uncovers a trail leading far beyond Half Moon Bay-into the deep Louisiana wilderness and a buried trove of Native American artifacts someone is willing to kill to protect. Soon, Margo is escorting a key witness through the swamplands to safety, pursued by a killer who moves unseen through the wilderness. And something else is hunting them too.
An ancient alligator, vast and silent, follows their passage through the dark waters-patient, relentless, and hungry. Now Margo must survive two predators: one human, one not. Follow Margo Fontaine and her cats in the Moon Bay Murders series-where swamps, storms, haunted hotels, and old Southern secrets conspire to keep you reading long into the night.? Book 1: The Burning Fire of Greed? Book 2: The Vanishing Bloodstain? Book 3: The Black Rose Returns? Book 4: The Golden Gift of Silence? Book 5: Alligator Hunt
An empty stretch of swampy river, and a silent and merciless death. Margo Fontaine, Private Detective, arrives in Half Moon Bay for the opening of Vinnie Chauvin's new art gallery. The town's elite crowd the ballroom as champagne flows and a violent thunderstorm rolls in from the Gulf. When the party reaches its peak, Chauvin's bleeding body is discovered on the balcony, soaking in the rain. With Sheriff Sam Stark away searching the bayous for a missing child, Margo is forced to take the investigation into her own hands.
But Chauvin was no honest art dealer. As Margo digs into his past, she uncovers a trail leading far beyond Half Moon Bay-into the deep Louisiana wilderness and a buried trove of Native American artifacts someone is willing to kill to protect. Soon, Margo is escorting a key witness through the swamplands to safety, pursued by a killer who moves unseen through the wilderness. And something else is hunting them too.
An ancient alligator, vast and silent, follows their passage through the dark waters-patient, relentless, and hungry. Now Margo must survive two predators: one human, one not. Follow Margo Fontaine and her cats in the Moon Bay Murders series-where swamps, storms, haunted hotels, and old Southern secrets conspire to keep you reading long into the night.? Book 1: The Burning Fire of Greed? Book 2: The Vanishing Bloodstain? Book 3: The Black Rose Returns? Book 4: The Golden Gift of Silence? Book 5: Alligator Hunt
