What The Cancals Held

When an old college friend asks Claire Harmon to witness the sale of her family's jungle lodge, Claire expects a few easy days on the water. She should know better by now.

The lodge sits deep in the Tortuguero canals on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, reachable only by boat - owned by the Thayer family for four generations, about to pass to a conservation trust that promises to finally set things right. Everyone with a stake in the deal has gathered for the signing: a family divided over selling, a lawyer who has kept the Thayers' secrets for thirty years, and a Bribri community representative who believes this is the day an old injustice finally surfaces.

By dawn, he is dead in the canal, and the only boat off the property is gone.

Claire has learned, across five unplanned investigations and one hard-won engagement, that the prettiest surfaces hide the oldest debts. This one runs back a century, into land nobody in the room wants to discuss.

In the sixth installment of this beloved series, Claire Harmon returns with her fiancé Will, her notebook, and her eye for the thing no one is saying. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Elin Hilderbrand, and Ruth Ware.