Island of Refuge — Linda Hall

Eventually he would find a place where ghosts didn't batter his nights...

Peter Glass arrives one summer morning on a small island off the coast of Maine -- tired, sick, and fleeing for his life. He finds refuge in an abandoned church and soon develops a special friendship with a young woman named Jo. But Peter's safe haven is shattered by tragedy when Jo is found murdered. Amidst the turmoil of suspicion, shock, and grief, Peter comes face-to-face with a host of the island's quirky inhabitants -- the woman who waits for her rarely seen husband, the boatbuilder who still mourns for his dead wife, the former pastor who lives in the church, and the elderly woman who is confidant to the island dwellers. Then Margot Douglas, proprietor of a Vermont fabric shop, begins her own investigation of the murder of Jo, her former houseguest. What Margot discovers shatters her to the core as she and the island's inhabitants seek to make peace with themselves, their pasts, and God.