{"product_id":"the-storms-alibi-paperback","title":"The Storm's Alibi - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn W. Taggart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe deadliest hurricane in American history is six hours from making landfall. Clara Whitaker has just killed her husband.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHouston, summer 1900. For four years, Clara has quietly run her husband's failing shipping company while he handled the social work and took his weekly trips to Galveston. By August, the ledgers tell her what she has slowly been refusing to see: the trips are to a woman, the company is bleeding, and the man she married was already someone else when he arrived in Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn September 7, she follows him to Galveston. She walks Postoffice Street at dusk and sees him with Rose Delacroix. The next morning she confronts him in his hotel room at the Tremont-and the confrontation does not survive what he tells her about Rose, the company, and the marriage she had thought was hers. By the time the storm makes landfall that afternoon, Charles Whitaker is one body the rising water will not have to claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Rose survives the hurricane. So does a Galveston policeman who finds a wound that does not match storm debris and a whiskey decanter placed too carefully back on a washstand. The investigation goes nowhere-the storm has erased the evidence, and a Galveston businessman named Moody has reasons to keep Mrs. Whitaker's shipping company in working order. Clara walks home a widow to a city that will never know what the storm was actually covering. Until someone she thought she had finished with arrives on her doorstep with a price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA historical psychological thriller in the tradition of Ariel Lawhon's \u003cem\u003eThe Frozen River\u003c\/em\u003e and Kate Quinn's \u003cem\u003eThe Diamond Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, set during the 1900 Galveston Hurricane-the worst single-day natural disaster in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of slow-burn historical thrillers, literary suspense, and Erik Larson's \u003cem\u003eIsaac's Storm\u003c\/em\u003e. A novel about the silences that catastrophes leave behind, and the women who learn to live inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe storm became his alibi. And hers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575130230923,"sku":"9798995229841","price":29.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/9z8ws9gENb9798995229841.webp?v=1790787108","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-storms-alibi-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}