Muddy the Water

A popular fishing captain is murdered on his own trawler and everyone in Haversport, Massachusetts, knows the culprit is a young deckhand named Ben Broome, including Detective Lillian Grimes. But Ben has discovered the perfect hiding place: as a reporter writing for the tiny Coastal Packet, a newspaper in South Carolina.

When a half-eaten body washes in it becomes the biggest story in the paper's history and brings cunning, charismatic Ben unexpected success. But it also leads Grimes closer ...