The Closer Bell — Case 2: Dead Reckoning

Callie Duchene's shrimper father vanished, and his boat came home on autopilot. Its voice log holds a stranger's command: *navigate home*. Mildred's drift math leads Gus to Little Wassaw Island and Ray Duchene's body, zip-tied in a life vest. He was a federal witness against a Thunderbolt seafood dealer selling imported shrimp as Georgia wild. A boatyard fight, a moved transponder and the killer's own recorded voice bring down Boone Tate and Wade Lanier, and the *Mary Lou* goes to Callie.