Aboat Time | A They Call Me CHZ Claims Mystery

Sound carries funny over water. So does the truth.

A boat that should have been easy to fix instead flooded in the middle of the night, and by morning the insurance file has already decided what happened. CHZ investigates claims for a living. She reads a file the way other people read a face, and this one keeps changing its story. The maintenance records say one thing. The denial says another. Somebody wrote "neglect" about a boat that had never once been neglected, and CHZ wants to know why.

Two hours from home, at a marina where everybody watches everybody, CHZ works the dock one liveaboard at a time. A coffee lady who misses nothing, an old man who grades the whole town from a lawn chair, a voice behind a hatch that never shows its face.

Boats aren't sudden. Everything a boat does, it does slowly, in public, with witnesses. CHZ is going to find out who was watching.

Book 2 of the They Call Me CHZ Claims Mystery series, by Debra Hopkins.

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