Phantom Grant at the Point
Widow's Point Lighthouse, Caldmere
A $40,000 coastal heritage grant awarded to the Widow's Point Lighthouse Preservation Trust has vanished — routed to an account that doesn't belong to the Trust. Someone forged the paperwork, and the lighthouse may lose its roof before anyone pays it back.
Everyone has something to hide.
Thirty years tending Widow's Point. Chose isolation the way some people choose religion. Methodical, private, tightly wound beneath a calm surface.
Tends a remarkable garden on the island. Supplies herbs to Wren & Finch and makes tinctures half of Caldmere swears by. Has a knowledge of plant toxicology she frames as 'folk medicine.'
The university's rising star. Published, grant-funded, and absolutely relentless. Direct, impatient, principled. Her students worship her; her colleagues resent her.
Can you name the culprit?
Read the case file, interrogate the suspects, and make your accusation — five guesses to crack it. The deduction board and the solution are for detectives only.
Caldmere, Maine.
A small town on the Maine coast where everyone knows everyone, and nothing is quite what it seems. Explore the locations and characters behind every case.