The Rising Tide
Victorian Literature Professor Sidney Lake is pressured by his housekeeper and confident, Tillie James, to help prove a woman innocent of the murder of her husband, a crime the police do not believe happened. It was a boating accident the coroner declared but gossip in the town of Morgan sees it differently. Sidney believes the coroner and police chief are right...until he starts asking questions. The answers lead he and Tillie down a path where members of the Gullah community have the answers and find the truth in the rising and falling waters of the lowcountry.
The Murder of Amos Dunn
Sidney Lake may have retired from Morgan College but not from becoming involved in the daily lives of Tillie James and Hattie Ryan. When Amos Dunn, the owner of the Cedar Stree Market, is found dead in his store, conventtional wisdom of the authorities declare it a murder due to his having interuped a robbery. Tillie doesn't believe it. Amos was a well liked Black man actively involved in the community who liked to tweke the noses of his White friends during downtown business association meetings. "This is no accidental robbery, it has something to do with that book of numbers he's always writing in." Sam Cashman, a Black policeman from the Gullah community, is put in charege of the investigation in order to calm the community outrage. Nothing is what it seems as the investigation moves into the White community and begins to make the political powers uncomfortable.
Deception
- Coming in 2022 -
An original edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant Of Wildfel Hall is seen on the Antiques Roadshow and Hattie Ryan believes it is the three volume set stolen from the back of a police car a few years earlier. Sidney Lake, who has just finishd a book on the literary forger Thomas Wise is sure she's right and begin to track the owner down. However, they are distracted by Tillie James' discovery of an attempt to defraud Gullah residents of their land on the Pirate Islands just off of Morgan, SC. Sidney Lake takes on the two distinct investigations and gets his neighbor, a retired Morgan detective, involved as the two seemingly distinct inquiries begin to merge. A conspiracy is uncovered that keeps everyone on edge as a major hurrican heads right fotr the lowcountry
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