Summer 2001. At Windemere Bay, a quiet resort community along the New Jersey shore, twenty-year-old Alex Rhodes is looking forward to familiar faces, long afternoons by the pool, evenings at the lake, and one more carefree summer with his friends. But the Fourth of July celebration takes a sinister turn when an anonymous warning appears: **SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE TONIGHT.**

At first, the message seems like a cruel prank. Then someone dies.

As more threatening notes surface and a string of suspicious accidents shakes the resort, Alex begins to suspect that the tragedies are connected. Someone knows Windemere Bay’s routines, its hidden corners, and the people who call it home. And whoever is responsible appears determined to keep the community afraid.

With his girlfriend, Grace Stevenson, and their close-knit group of friends, Alex searches for answers while Detective Tomlinson works to uncover the truth. Their questions lead to old grudges, buried secrets, and unsettling clues that suggest the danger may be closer than anyone realizes.

For Alex, the mystery stirs memories of a past mistake he has never fully put behind him. As the threats grow more personal, he must decide how far he is willing to go to protect the people he loves, even when his determination puts them at risk.

Set against the nostalgic backdrop of a Jersey Shore summer, *Murder at the Shore* is a suspenseful mystery about friendship, guilt, revenge, and the terrifying possibility that a killer has been hiding in plain sight all along.