{"product_id":"dead-wreckoning-9781633634411","title":"Dead Wreckoning","description":"\u003cp\u003eSidra Smart's search for an elusive pirate schooner stirs up a bayou bonanza of treasure hunters, smugglers, and the spirits of the infamous Jean Lafitte and his pirate queen, Mary Anne Radcliff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew P.I. Sid Smart, ex-preacher's wife, is back for another puzzling case, as she tackles the strange tale of Boo Murphy, who has just been accused of murder. When Boo tells a tale of stumbling on the Hotspur, Lafitte's privateering schooner, half-buried in a Texas swamp, most everyone is convinced she's not telling the whole truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Sidra searches for both the schooner and evidence to clear her client, she begins to suspect that her trusted mentor and friend George L ger is involved in something fishy as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat would she do without the help of companions Aunt Annie and Slider, her faithful mongrel pooch, as the dangerous investigation takes Sidra from the small town of Orange, Texas, out into the nearby bayous? Interwoven families and feuding neighbors muddy the clues, swirling from past to present, as elusive as a spectral schooner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill the answer be found in the legend of Lafitte and the voluptuous, swashbuckling Mary Anne Radcliff, sailing through the adventures of this third Sidra Smart mystery?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Sylvia Dickey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sylvia Dickey Smith believes in the tremendous power of story. To her, story is that thing that connects us one to the other. It gives us something to hang onto while we find our way through life. It defines who we are, what we stand for, and often what we absolutely will not stand for. Within the process of storytelling, she says, we find our voice. When she isn't writing, she enjoys talking to the stranger in line at the supermarket, at the gas station, in the shopping center. Such conversation gives her a glimpse into story.","brand":"Sylvia Dickey Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50859088314642,"sku":"9781633634411","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45e95b71-4150-488c-9881-0cb7751130fd.jpg?v=1737549382","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-wreckoning-9781633634411","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}