Missing Witness

Plot

After a nervea??shattering encounter with military justice in The Accused, Craig Parshalla??s third novel, all lawyer WillChambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona... A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritancecase involving Jonathan Joppa, a downa??ona??hisa??luck preachera?? a??Piracy chargea??Joppaa??s ancestor? What...when?a?? a??Why, for being part of Blackbearda??s pirate crew...in the early 1700s...a?? Will just wants to rest, but Fiona keeps insisting therea??ssomething missing...buried. Soon the two have had a neara??fatal brush withsmugglersa??and together theya??ve unearthed the truth: about a piratea??s history,about Jonathan Joppa, and about two remarkable womena??one in the past, and onein the present.