The Smugglers Daughter, Claire Matturro
The Smugglers Daughter, Claire Matturro
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The Smuggler's Daughter

Author: Claire Matturro

Narrator: Alicia Kelley, Kevin Stillwell

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scribd Audio

Published: 11/30/2021


Synopsis

Ray Slaverson, a world-weary Florida police detective, has his hands full with the murders of two attorneys and a third suspicious death, all within twenty-four hours. Ray doesn’t believe in coincidences, but he can’t find a single link between the dead men, and he and his partner soon smash into an investigative stonewall.

Kate Garcia, Ray’s fiancée, knows more than she should. She helped one of the dead attorneys, just hours before he took a bullet to the head, study an old newspaper in the library where she works. Kate might be the only person still alive who knows what he was digging up—except for his killer.

When Kate starts trying to discover what’s behind the murders, she turns up disturbing links between the three dead men that track back to her family’s troubled past. But she has plenty of reasons to keep her mouth shut. Her discovery unleashes a cat-and-mouse game that threatens to sink her and those she loves in a high tide of danger.

About Claire Matturro

Claire Matturro has been a journalist in Alabama, a lawyer in Florida, an organic blueberry farmer in Georgia, and taught at Florida State University College of Law and as a visiting professor of legal writing one long, snowy winter at the University of Oregon. She now lives with her husband and two rescued cats in Florida. Her books include: Skinny-Dipping (a BookSense pick, Romantic Times' Best First Mystery, and nominated for a Barry Award); Wildcat Wine (nominated for a Georgia Writer of the Year Award); Bone Valley, and Sweetheart Deal (winner of Romantic Times' Award for Most Humorous Mystery), all published by William Morrow. She remains active in writers' groups and contributes regularly to Southern Literary Review.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Louise

1799: Emily Moon lives with her mother in an inn on a clifftop in Cornwall. Her father had mysteriously disappeared. Her mother turns to alcohol. The only way to keep afloat is to turn a blind eye to the smugglers who send signals from the clifftop. Emily knows that the smugglers killed her father. P......more

Goodreads review by Alayne

This book had all the elements I love. It was set in Cornwall, it read like Jamaica Inn which I read years ago and loved and it was dual time-line so, it was a sure fire win. I loved this book, it read like watching Poldark without (unfortunately) Aidan Turner which would have added to my enjoyment......more

[URL not allowed] Mystery? Check. Historical Fiction? Check. Timeslip/Time Parallel? Check. This book had the formula to be an enjoyable read and Barrett did a good job in making that formula successful! We have Emily Moon from 1799, who witnesses her father’s death and wants to tr......more

Goodreads review by Desiree

A decent read. Entertaining. It didn't "wow" me, but good enough to keep the pages turning. Pleasant. Lovely Cornish and ocean scenery.......more