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There’ll Be Shell to Pay is the second book in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries. The books follow Maureen Nash, a fairly recent widow in her early fifties. She’s a malacologist—a scientist who studies mollusks—and a storyteller who’s inherited a shell shop on Ocracoke, a barrier island off the North Carolina coast. The shop is haunted by the ghost of an eighteenth-century pirate.Visit Molly MacRae's website.
In this new story, Maureen travels back to Ocracoke, having spent several weeks settling affairs in her hometown in Tennessee. She expects a warm welcome from Emrys Lloyd, the ghost. He’d written a letter telling her he’d discovered treasure in the shop’s attic. But Emrys doesn’t appear when she arrives. Instead she finds an envelope addressed to Rob Tate, captain of the Ocracoke station of the Hyde County Sheriff’s Department. When Tate comes to get the envelope, he finds a note inside consisting of a single line and a signature. The line reads The dead woman is Lenrose. It’s signed Maureen Nash. The handwriting and the signature are Maureen’s.
I cast most of the series characters last year when book one, Come Shell or High Water, came out. Those choices still stand and you can read them here. But I neglected to cast Rob Tate or his deputy, Matt Kincaid. Tate is in his mid-forties. He’s the kind of man with a clear, calm voice who shakes a hand without trying to crush it. Jake Gyllenhaal would make a fine Rob Tate. Matt Kincaid, Tate’s deputy, is young (mid- to late-twenties), good-hearted, and a bit...[read on]
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