The Last Light at Cape Marrow

When Boston trauma psychologist Eleanor Hayes returns to her small Maine hometown to bury her younger sister, the official ruling is suicide. Eleanor doesn't believe a word of it. Cape Marrow is the kind of town where everyone knows everyone, and where the Whitfields, descendants of one of Maine's oldest families, have always known a little more. Vivian had been asking questions before she died, questions about a working lighthouse, a forty year old cancer cluster, and a green notebook her mother kept hidden for half her life. With the quiet help of Detective James Cole, a man rebuilding himself after a tragedy of his own, and a retired federal agent living as a lighthouse keeper, Eleanor begins to pull at threads the town would rather leave alone. What she uncovers reaches back two centuries and forward into her own family. In the tradition of Tana French, Kate Morton, and Liz Moore, The Last Light at Cape Marrow is a novel about sisters, the long work of justice, and the quiet courage of being seen. A clean read suitable for book clubs and adult readers; no explicit content.