A Bone to Pick

Tessa Black gave up a detective's career at Seattle PD and came home to the island to look after her ailing mother. She expected her mother's illness to be the hardest thing she faced this year. Then a routine call takes her into the state park, where a local man has been harpooned to a signpost.

The victim kept secrets. Working with her best friend, FBI agent Cate Wilde, and park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa has to put them together before the killer moves again — all while the twenty-year-old disappearance of her childhood friend Samantha keeps pulling at the edges of the case.

The second Widow's Island novella, written by Melinda Leigh. Short, procedural, and centred on Tessa rather than Cate.