Publication Date: April 9, 2024
The last thing she wants is to dig up the past…
When the body of a celebrated journalist is fished from the Edgartown Harbor, the official report rules his death accidental. But why was he alone on a senator’s yacht during a nor’easter? That’s only the first question London-based lawyer Kyra Gibson has when she arrives on the idyllic island of Martha’s Vineyard to settle her estranged father’s affairs.
She’s not looking for closure. She’s not seen him in decades since he left her with her aunt following her mother’s death. But as Kyra delves deeper into her father’s life, she learns he had many regrets and wasn’t as retired as she believed. The more Kyra discovers, the more questions she has. With the help of world-weary detective, Tarek Collins, they uncover a web of intrigue and corruption involving a powerful senator, a dubious energy company, and brutal murder.
As they chase down clues, Kyra and Tarek flirt with danger and race against time to solve the murders and uncover the dark secrets lurking beneath Martha’s Vineyard’s picturesque façade of old money wealth and privilege.
London attorney Kyra Gibson travels to Martha’s Vineyard, where she must tie up the loose ends related to her father’s drowning death.
Full of emotion over their estrangement, Kyra discovers the circumstances surrounding her father’s death seem suspicious. Could it be her father was chasing a story that led him into harm’s way?
Author Raemi A. Ray delivers A Chain of Pearls, the first installment in An Island Mystery series. Kyra teams up with Detective Tarek Collins to probe into her father’s death along with suspicions regarding a senator and an energy company.
The deeper they dig, the more tangled webs they discover. It’s a cathartic process for Kyra to be able to bring justice first to her father.
As a debut novel, A Chain of Pearls provides a rich foundation for future installments set on this picturesque island.
Raemi Amanda Ray is the author of A Chain of Pearls, her debut and the first book in a Martha’s Vineyard Murders series set on Martha’s Vineyard. Her travels to the island and around the world inspire her stories. She lives in Boston.
