Where salt water and fresh water meets

The year is 1900 One moment two year old Edgar is holding his mother s hand and the next he is gone Five years later Trudy is still haunted by the idea that her missing son is alive somewhere and she will stop at nothing in her search to find him Yet the search for clues is anything but simple She s a woman working alone in 1906 and the people around her are both are help and a hindrance A corrupt employer a secretive husband and sudden mysteries cropping up in her own home all muddy the water And then the hallucination beginWill Trudy s marriage ever be free from secrets Can she and her husband reconcile and have a whole family once again And the question closest to Trudy s Will she ever see her beloved boy again Where the Salt Water EndsMystery and suspense leave you wanting You keep wanting to know what Trudy is going to do next or what she is going to discover She is a strong stubborn woman who will stop at nothing to get the answers she needs to move on A true testament to a mother will do whatever it takes for her children 9798876669827 As a Rhode Islander I especially enjoyed this work of historical fiction with its settings of Smithfield and Providence as well as the mill work history of this area Yet I believe this book should find a larger audience outside of Rhode Island and the industrial Northeast At its heart it is a crime mystery set in a time over a century ago when law enforcement was incapable of or unwilling to deal with lost children The main character mother to one of the missing takes it upon herself to find out what happened to her son With only her wits to rely upon and the ever present prospect of danger she does this all in a time when women were afforded little attention or respect Imagine losing a child of your own and then having to solve the mystery on your own I enjoyed how the author took us into the mind of the grieving mother This is a good read 9798876669827