Whiskey Beach / Nora Roberts / 758 pages / USA Today Bestseller November Challenge

"His life, he decided, if you didn't count murder, break-ins, and clouds of suspicion, was pretty __ good at the moment."  Eli Landon has had a truly horrible year.  Accused of the murder of his soon-to-be ex wife, he has been dogged by Detective Wolf, alienated from former friends and associates, and asked to resign his position in the law firm.  When his grandmother suffers a serious fall, he returns to his ancestral home, Bluff House, as caretaker.  When he meets his grandmother's housekeeper and friend, Abba, his life is forever changed.  This is a tale of liberated women, pirates, treasure hunts, multiple murders...something for everyone!