Trap Line: Charlie Pike Novel($13.99Value)

Description

At 4:47 a.m., commercial lobster fisherman Luther Craine is found face-down between his boat and the dock in Melbourne Harbor, a trap line wrapped around his ankle. Marine Patrol calls it an accident. Deputy Officer Terri Salcido isn't convinced. The knot is too clean. The line is too orderly. And Luther is the third veteran fisherman to die under suspiciously similar circumstances in eighteen months. All three deaths were quickly closed as accidents. All three men had something else in common. They refused to sell. When Orlando private investigator Charlie Pike is called to Melbourne, he finds a working waterfront caught between old families who have fished it for generations and a development company determined to remake the harbor. Then a decades-old agreement reveals something far more dangerous: when certain fishermen die, the licenses they spent their lives protecting don't simply disappear. They revert. And there may still be one holdout left alive. Now Charlie is following a trail of old signatures, silent fishermen, missing answers, and a man seen on the docks who seems to know exactly how to make murder look like an accident. With the reversion clock already running, Charlie doesn't just have to prove what happened to three dead men. He has to stop the trap from closing on the fourth. On this waterfront, every trap belongs to somebody. And somebody is willing to kill for what comes back when its owner dies.