Book cover for "Black Veil, White Rose" by Moe Claire featuring a dark ocean scene with boats.

Book 4 of the Pyke Island Mystery in Downeast Maine series

Three lobstermen. Three drownings. Somebody’s counting.

When three Pyke Island lobstermen drown within weeks of each other, the official verdict is the same each time: tragedies happen when you fish alone. The island grieves, closes ranks, and moves on. That’s what Pyke Island does.

But the pattern is too clean. The silence is too practiced. And when Del Corriveau starts asking questions, the people with money tied up in those waters make sure the answers go nowhere.

Set against the iron-cold waters of Downeast Maine, A Blind Spider is a story of a tight-knit fishing community, a rock ledge that keeps its secrets, and the particular danger of asking the right questions in the wrong place.

Moe Claire
Softcover: 978-1-961905-83-2 | $14.95
E-book: 978-1-961905-84-9 | $8.99
August 2026 | 256 pages

The story doesn’t end here:

Book 1

Book cover for "Fickle Tide" by Moe Claire, ocean scene at night.

What surfaces was never gone

Book 2

Cover of Following Sasquatch

A hidden cave, a buried past

Book 3

Book cover for "Black Veil, White Rose" by Moe Claire featuring a dark ocean scene with boats.

What they found won’t stay buried

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In the media

WABI5 – interview – “Author Moe Claire Discusses First Book in Downeast Maine Mystery Series” – August 7, 2025

WABI5 – interview – “Author Moe Claire Releases Second Book in Downeast Maine Mystery Series” – January 30, 2026

As mystery readers and geologists, the Pyke Island Series hits all the right notes—real Downeast Maine scenery, authentic characters, a touch of geology, and plenty of small town secrets and suspense.
—Duane and Ruth Braun, authors of Guide to the Geology of Mount Desert Island, the Schoodic Peninsula, and Acadia National Park