The Stolen Coast

"There’s a noir vibe to this tale of a femme fatale who returns to trouble the guy she left behind and perhaps sets up for a final fall. The Stolen Coast is set in a dingy seaside town in Massachusetts, with a harbor “shaped like a teardrop.” Our potential patsy is Jack Betancourt, nicknamed “the ferryman” because he ferries people on the run into new lives. While his clients’ false IDs are being made, Jack stows them away in vacation cottages. Whether Jack himself will end up “stowed away” is a question Dwyer Murphy keeps aloft until the final pages."