Etymology of Tides (Bracken Cove Mystery, #4)

History is written by the victors. Or, in this case, by a panicked linguist with a quill and a plan to commit a felony.

Isla Rhys-Jones, former Oxford academic turned boat mechanic's wife, thought the hardest part of Maine life was the weather. That was before a November gale stripped the mud from the harbor floor, revealing the skeletal remains of an 18th-century brigantine right under her husband's workshop.

The discovery attracts Dr. Alistair Rane, a State Archaeologist with a clipboard, a...