Riptide: Coastal Mystery Short Stories Anthology Unsigned Copy

Riptide: Stormy Stories from the Grand Strand is a coastal mystery short story anthology set along South Carolina’s Grand Strand. For readers drawn to beach mysteries, folklore, and atmospheric suspense, four authors bring together tales of storms, secrets, and legends featuring Detective Phil Moody from the Myrtle Beach Mystery Series.

Storms churn secrets to the surface along the Carolina coast.

Mystery runs deep along the South Carolina coast, where storms stir up more than just the ocean. In Riptide: Stormy Stories from the Grand Strand, four authors—Caleb Wygal, Lisa Borne Graves, Kelly Capriotti Burton, and Maegwen Salley-Massie—deliver a collection of suspenseful tales set against the haunting beauty of the Grand Strand.

From shadowy marshes to moonlit beaches, each story captures the tension, secrets, and unforgettable twists that hide beneath the surface of coastal life.

Official Release Date: October 28, 2025

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Book Description

Mystery runs deep along the Grand Strand. Deeper than the tides. Older than the oaks.

Along the South Carolina coast, the marsh breathes secrets to life, and the riptide carries stories that linger just out of reach. Some half-remembered. Some half-believed.

In Riptide: Stormy Stories from the Grand Strand, four acclaimed authors—Kelly Capriotti Burton, Lisa Borne Graves, Maegwen Salley-Massie, and Caleb Wygal—offer a haunting mosaic of mystery, memory, and myth set amid the windswept beauty of the Grand Strand. Rooted in coastal folklore and enriched with new imaginings, these tales revisit familiar legends while breathing life into new ones. Blending the eerie with the elegiac, this collection explores the thin spaces between past and present, truth and legend, the living and the lost.

Each story pulls Detective Phil Moody of the Myrtle Beach Mystery Series into legends and enigmas stranger than any case file—storms that defy reason, secrets the marsh refuses to bury, and ghosts that never fade.

Three threads connect them all: a sudden storm, a night at Drunken Jack’s, and Phil Moody himself, caught between truth and legend.

Some mysteries don’t need to be solved. Only witnessed.

Whether you’re a longtime fan of coastal mysteries or discovering this shoreline for the first time, Riptide will sweep you into a storm surge of danger and intrigue.