Knight at the Tidewater

Some games take a lifetime to finish.Kate Calloway left Pointe Coquille at eighteen and stayed gone seventeen years. Now she runs the Tidewater, a café on a working Louisiana harbor, pouring chicory for the same faces every morning. Every Tuesday that means old Henry Masters at the corner table, who played chess with her grandfather for years.Then Henry comes in on the wrong day. He sets a carved chess knight beside his coffee and asks to see her at nine the next morning.By morning Henry is dead in his study. The parish is ready to call it an old man's heart. Kate, who was a very good lawyer before she ever poured a cup of coffee, sees two glasses where Henry only ever poured one.To find out who sat with Henry that night, Kate will have to read the whole town the way her grandfather taught her to read a board. And every move she makes brings her closer to a secret about her own name.Book One of the Kate Calloway Mystery Series. The story begins in the prequel, What the Gulf Kept.