A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan.
Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When sheâs not tending the store, sheâs hunting cryptidsâcreatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. Itâs a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one sheâll never give up on.
So when a number of bodies turn up on the shores of Lake Michigan with injuries that look like bites from a giant unknown animal, police chief Jon Flanders turns to Morgan for help. A skeptic at heart, Morgan canât turn down the opportunity to find proof of an entity whose existence she canât definitively rule out. She and her beloved rescue dog, Newt, journey to the Death's Door strait to hunt for a homicidal monster in the lakeâbut if theyâre not careful, they just might be its next victims.