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Murder on the Morning Crossing
Every crossing carries a secret.
Book 1 of the San Juan Crossing Mysteries by Jace Fox, yours free when you join the Jace Fox newsletter.
About the Book
A retired surveyor dies during an otherwise ordinary ferry crossing, leaving Canadian appraiser Katie Calloway with an antique tide-table booklet, and more questions than answers.
Katie came to the San Juan Islands to inventory a cabin. Instead, she finds herself untangling conflicting accounts from passengers who all watched the same whale sighting but remember very different things. The dead man had been studying the history of Tern Point, a coveted stretch of Lopez Island shoreline, and someone appears desperate to keep his discoveries buried.
Enter Gideon “Gid” Larsen: former forest ranger, island property manager, reluctant ally, and owner of one remarkably perceptive black Labrador. He knows the trails and cabins; Katie knows how to spot an inventory that has been tampered with. Between them, there may be just enough evidence to challenge an explanation everyone else is ready to accept.
From the ferry decks to a cozy Lopez café, old records and quiet grudges point toward a secret hidden in plain sight. But can Katie identify the killer before another clue disappears?
A scenic, fair-play cozy mystery full of island character, dry humor, whale sightings, and the first sparks of a sweet, slow-burning romance.
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About the San Juan Crossing Mysteries
Kathleen “Katie” Calloway lives between two shores. A Canadian property appraiser from North Saanich, she regularly takes the ferry to visit her formidable Aunt Bea on Washington’s Lopez Island. Her pocket Crossing Log is full of weather notes, passenger observations, and details no one else thinks worth remembering, until a man dies aboard the ferry and those details become evidence.
Each book offers a complete, fair-play whodunit, an eccentric island community, sea air, whale sightings, and the warmth of an unfolding, sweet romance. Running through all six stories is a deeper puzzle: the fate of Tern Point and a long-buried Whitlock family trust.
Six captivating island mysteries. One unforgettable crossing.
The Series in Order
- Murder on the Morning Crossing (free for newsletter subscribers)
- Murder at Mountain Lake
- Murder at English Camp
- Murder at the Foghorn Inn
- Mistletoe and Murder at Roche Harbor
- Murder on the Last Ferry Home