Death on the Coast M A Comley New York Times and USA Today bestselling author M A Comley Published by Jeamel Publishing limited Copyright © 2021 M A Comley Digital Edition, License Notes All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental. Contents Acknowledgments Also by M A Comley Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Keep in touch with M A Comley Acknowledgments Thank you as always to my rock, Jean, I’d be lost without you in my life. Special thanks as always go to @studioenp for their superb cover design expertise. My heartfelt thanks go to my wonderful editor Abby, my proofreaders Angela, Barbara and Jacqueline for spotting all the lingering nits. Thank you also to my amazing ARC group who help to keep me sane during this process. To Mary, gone, but never forgotten. I hope you found the peace you were searching for, my dear friend. Also by M A Comley Blind Justice (Novella) Cruel Justice (Book #1) Mortal Justice (Novella) Impeding Justice (Book #2) Final Justice (Book #3) Foul Justice (Book #4) Guaranteed Justice (Book #5) Ultimate Justice (Book #6) Virtual Justice (Book #7) Hostile Justice (Book #8) Tortured Justice (Book #9) Rough Justice (Book #10) Dubious Justice (Book #11) Calculated Justice (Book #12) Twisted Justice (Book #13) Justice at Christmas (Short Story) Justice at Christmas 2 (novella) Justice at Christmas 3 (novella) Prime Justice (Book #14) Heroic Justice (Book #15) Shameful Justice (Book #16) Immoral Justice (Book #17) Toxic Justice (Book #18) Overdue Justice (Book #19) Unfair Justice (a 10,000 word short story) Irrational Justice (a 10,000 word short story) Seeking Justice (a 15,000 word novella) Caring For Justice (a 24,000 word novella) Savage Justice (a 17,000 word novella Featuring THE UNICORN) Gone In Seconds (Justice Again series #1) Ultimate Dilemma (Justice Again series #2) Shot of Silence (Justice Again #3) Taste of Fury (Justice Again #4) Clever Deception (co-written by Linda S Prather) Tragic Deception (co-written by Linda S Prather) Sinful Deception (co-written by Linda S Prather) Forever Watching You (DI Miranda Carr thriller) Wrong Place (DI Sally Parker thriller #1) No Hiding Place (DI Sally Parker thriller #2) Cold Case (DI Sally Parker thriller#3) Deadly Encounter (DI Sally Parker thriller #4) Lost Innocence (DI Sally Parker thriller #5) Goodbye, My Precious Child (DI Sally Parker #6) Web of Deceit (DI Sally Parker Novella with Tara Lyons) The Missing Children (DI Kayli Bright #1) Killer On The Run (DI Kayli Bright #2) Hidden Agenda (DI Kayli Bright #3) Murderous Betrayal (Kayli Bright #4) Dying Breath (Kayli Bright #5) Taken (Kayli Bright #6 coming March 2020) The Hostage Takers (DI Kayli Bright Novella) No Right to Kill (DI Sara Ramsey #1) Killer Blow (DI Sara Ramsey #2) The Dead Can’t Speak (DI Sara Ramsey #3) Deluded (DI Sara Ramsey #4) The Murder Pact (DI Sara Ramsey #5) Twisted Revenge (DI Sara Ramsey #6) The Lies She Told (DI Sara Ramsey #7) For The Love Of… (DI Sara Ramsey #8) Run For Your Life (DI Sara Ramsey #9) Cold Mercy (DI Sara Ramsey #10) Sign of Evil (DI Sara Ramsey #11) Indefensible (DI Sara Ramsey #12 coming April 2021) I Know The Truth (A psychological thriller) She’s Gone (A psychological thriller coming July 2021) The Caller (co-written with Tara Lyons) Evil In Disguise – a novel based on True events Deadly Act (Hero series novella) Torn Apart (Hero series #1) End Result (Hero series #2) In Plain Sight (Hero Series #3) Double Jeopardy (Hero Series #4) Criminal Actions (Hero Series #5) Regrets Mean Nothing (Hero #6) Sole Intention (Intention series #1) Grave Intention (Intention series #2) Devious Intention (Intention #3) Merry Widow (A Lorne Simpkins short story) It’s A Dog’s Life (A Lorne Simpkins short story) Cozy Mystery Series Murder at the Wedding Murder at the Hotel Murder by the Sea Death on the Coast A Time To Heal (A Sweet Romance) A Time For Change (A Sweet Romance) High Spirits The Temptation series (Romantic Suspense/New Adult Novellas) Past Temptation Lost Temptation Tempting Christa (A billionaire romantic suspense co-authored by Tracie Delaney #1) Avenging Christa (A billionaire romantic suspense co-authored by Tracie Delaney #2) Prologue Waves, pushing to run ahead of the incoming storm, broke over the rocks. The spray blew some sixty feet into the air, soaking the scenic coastal path. Another famous nor’easter was due to make landfall on the Maine coast in the coming forty-eight hours. Angie lowered her head, pulling the cord of her hoodie tighter. She’d just touched up her hair earlier that morning. If she left it uncovered, the mist would make it frizz as badly as Patch’s gnarled coat. “C’mon, boy. No pain, no gain, as they say. I need to walk off five pounds in a week, or that dress isn’t going to fit.” Patch gave her a side-eye look over his shoulder. She chuckled, aware he’d rather have been back in his bed of soft lamb’s wool, by the embers in the grate. That said, for Angie to venture out for such a brisk walk was rare, so he was eager to take advantage of her latest health kick. He barked his agreement, but the wind carried it along with the rain that had begun to fall. His snout snapped as he tried to capture a drink from the rain. “Let’s have just another fifteen and then get back to the cottage. Okay with you?” She was just as miserable as she imagined him to be, but there were a half-dozen fudge swirl cupcakes from Sal’s Sweets, languishing on their kitchen counter, a gift from her daughter. Rather than hurting Christine’s feelings, she’d opted to retreat from temptation and go for a walk. She couldn’t eat what was waiting prettily on their paper doilies inside the cut-glass cake stand if she wasn’t in the house with them. “Mush!” she called into the wind to Patch, laughing. Although he was stout for a miniature schnauzer, she
