Teresa Crowe

Every wreck leaves a key to its story. Janessa “Nessa” Douglas discovers a broken brass key among the wreckage after a Nor’ Easter storm as she catalogs for the historical society. The initials engraved on its shaft appear to connect it to the Widow’s Return, a legendary shipwreck said...

Some truths keep you sane. Others shatter you. Ruby Hancock always believed she was a psychiatric nurse doing her best to care for the patients at Crown Point Psychiatric Hospital, an innovative behavioral health care facility along the Chesapeake Bay. When a colleague turns up dead, Ruby...

When Janessa "Nessa" Douglas inherits her grandmother's house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairytales about women who kept dangerous secrets.

In the tight-knit community of Mystic Beach, social worker Dr. Clara Starr appears to have conquered her troubled past. But when the body of local waterman Bobby Ward washes ashore, Clara's darkest secret plunges her into the heart of a chilling mystery. As her clients become the prime suspects...

Addie Marsh and her boss, Dr. Clara Starr, stumble upon an abandoned boat along the shore of Chesapeake Bay. Department of Natural Resources Officer Blue Wild reveals that the boat’s livewell is filled with blood.

When a series of suspicious deaths occur at Sunview Assisted Living Facility, Vallurea Starr, a deaf resident, joins forces with friends Emma, Jane, and Blossom to uncover the truth behind the deaths.