Wreck Postcard: A Cozy Mystery

A postcard. A lighthouse. A death everyone wants to call an accident.Maritime Festival weekend turns Salvage Bay into a postcard-perfect performance—string lights, shanties, and smiling volunteers papering over old cracks. Maren Oakes just wants to survive the Boat Show without a client catastrophe or a committee ambush.Then visiting curator Celeste Avery shows up with a pop-up exhibit about the infamous Bellwind wreck… and one antique postcard that doesn't match the town's official story. The angle is wrong. The message is worse. And someone offers Celeste cash to make it disappear.Before Maren can figure out why a century-old card has people sweating, Celeste is dead—on a crowded dock tour ramp slicked with fresh grease and scored with tool marks. The festival board calls it a tragedy. Detective Jonah Pike calls it a crime scene.With Simone keeping her fed and grounded, Finn chasing down timelines and paperwork, and a certain cat investigating on his own schedule, Maren follows the trail from falsified "e;heritage"e; history to the shadow of Lighthouse Point—where Salvage Bay's secrets have been kept for generations.Because someone killed to protect the story the town sells.And they'll do it again to keep the truth underwater.The Wreck Postcard is Book 3 in the Salvage Bay Mystery series—cozy mystery tension with a sapphic heart, seaside charm, and danger hiding in plain sight.