High Tide: A Jack McGill Mystery

Jack McGill left behind a successful New Jersey law practice for a quieter life on North Carolina's Outer Banks. These days, he represents parents in difficult juvenile-court cases, bakes cookies for courthouse clerks, and lives beyond the paved road in Carova, where the beach serves as the highway and wild horses wander through the dunes. Then, on an early September morning, the body of Lydia Bennett, a local social worker Jack knew, is discovered near the surf line. Her death draws Jack into questions she can no longer answer and toward people who would prefer the past remain undisturbed. What begins on a remote Carolina beach soon reaches back to the familiar towns of his youth, and to secrets someone has spent years protecting. Jack is not a detective. But twenty years of divorce practice taught him that people reveal the truth in what they avoid, and that the respectable version of a family's history is rarely the complete one. As the trail carries him from the Outer Banks to the Jersey Shore, Jack must uncover what Lydia discovered, knowing that exposing the past may forever change the lives built upon it.