The Silk Map of River Street: A Historical Cozy Mystery Waterfront Secrets and Murder

A map that doesn't match. A death called an accident. And a dressmaker who knows when someone has tampered with the edges.Winter has wrapped Savannah in river fog, but Cora Bell Fontaine has no illusions about a quiet season. Trouble merely has more time to dress properly.When Inez Latimer brings her a warning about a silk sample map in a River Street shipping office, the sixty-three-year-old dressmaker expects a little dishonest dealing. The warehouses on the cloth do not match the buildings along the river.Then young stenographer Clara Merrow is found dead at the foot of a broker's stairs.First, the explanation is an accident. Then a jealous office quarrel. Anything, it seems, will do-as long as nobody asks awkward questions about the men buying up Savannah's waterfront.Clara copied something she wasn't meant to see. Someone intends to make sure her discovery dies with her.Cora has other ideas. With Delphine studying laundry starch, Ruthanna checking office hours as closely as train schedules, and Naomi and Inez risking futures of their own, she follows a trail of altered sample books, carbon copies, and suspicious selvedge marks.But the evidence also stirs uneasy memories of Isaiah's hidden repairs. This deception reaches beyond one office-and the people who stand to profit have much more to lose than their good names.In a city where a redrawn map can erase a family's claim to its home, Cora must prove what happened to Clara before a convenient explanation becomes the accepted truth.The silk may look refined. The theft beneath it is another matter.Return to 1926 Savannah in The Silk Map Of River Street, a warm, wry historical cozy mystery featuring a resourceful senior sleuth, loyal friends, dressmaking clues, and waterfront secrets.A Cora Bell Fontaine Mystery with a complete fair-play solution and a satisfying ending. The murder occurs off the page, with no gore, graphic violence, or explicit content.