The Weight of Keys: A Bridge Tenders Mystery

Book One of the Bridge Tenders MysteriesSloane Harlow trusts data more than memory. After Boston ended badly, that's been enough to get by on.She came to Bayard's Crossing to disappear, inheriting her aunt's bridge tender job, forty-seven keys, and a rescue mutt named Rex. Then a developer turns up dead in the boathouse, locked in from the inside, and Sloane's own bridge logs place her at the scene at hours she can't remember.The data doesn't lie. But it doesn't tell the whole truth either.Sloane runs the only investigation she knows how to run: methodically. She pulls metadata from a stranger's photograph. She scrapes public records for a name someone tried to erase. She sits in a coffee shop watching a suspect's unsecured connection, ordering coffee she never drinks. Every script she writes brings her closer to an answer, and further from the woman she used to be.What she finds beneath the bridge deck isn't a simple murder. It's a vault sealed for sixty-five years, a secret the whole town has been paying for in silence, and a family name, her family name, at the center of it.The keys her aunt left her don't just open doors. They open a history someone has spent six decades trying to bury.The tide always comes back for what it's owed. This time, so does the truth.