A dead man.
A quiet beach town.
A truth nobody wants unearthed.
“Thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful. The Washashore has action, terrific dialogue, and a charming cast of characters that will keep you hooked.”
—William Landay
“A quiet but engrossing…crime thriller with vibrant details and memorable characters…. Mirabile’s prose is clean and clear and lovingly paints an eclectic, vibrant community.”
—Kirkus Reviews
In a town where every square foot of sand comes with a story
nothing is ever simple
A seemingly natural death Leads police chief Silas Lopez from the quiet streets of Provincetown to the dark underbelly of property finance
Christopher Mirabile
Christopher Mirabile was born to books. The middle child of a small-town librarian, by the time he was an honors English major at Colgate University, he was certain he would write fiction. Life had other plans.
Meet Silas Lopez
Silas Lopez probably should have stayed on the open range of New Mexico and Colorado. Life was simpler on horseback, where trouble showed in a bull’s eye and could be settled with strong, steady hands. But staying was never in the cards for this rancher.
He traded cattle drives for city streets in Salt Lake City—until the corruption got too thick to breathe and his temper made staying impossible. So he and his cattle dog, Bandit headed east.
Fate dropped them in Provincetown, a windswept village at the far tip of Cape Cod—twenty-five miles out to sea from the polished chaos of Boston. Silas found himself wearing a badge again, this time as Chief—and, to his surprise, falling under the spell of Wren Bradford, a debutante-turned-photographer and social worker with roots as deep as the dunes.
He doesn’t talk much, but when he does, people listen. His compass never wavers, his work ethic could shame an ox, and his smarts were forged the only way that counts—by surviving.