Dylan Crooke's known men like Charlie all his life—men with eager smiles and guaranteed get-rich schemes. But Dylan leaves his dark past behind, or so he thinks, when he moves to a sleepy NC coastal town. He's hardly unpacked when he becomes entangled in a murder, art theft, a revolutionary invention, an angry thug, a heartbroken woman, and a too-nosy neighbor.

Only Charlie knows what's going on, but Charlie's gone. What's Dylan going to do?

Cover art by Jen Taylor

BOSON BOOKS also offers the full length mysteries Our Fathers and Now Mourn the Space Cadet and a collection of short stories Quite Contrary by John Chabot.