Missing witness : Chambers of justice series, book 4

After a nerve-shattering encounter with military justice in The Accused, Craig Parshall's third novel, all lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona... A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritance case involving Jonathan Joppa, a down-on-his-luck preacher: "Piracy charge:Joppa's ancestor? What...when?" "Why, for being part of Blackbeard's pirate crew...in the early 1700s..." Will just wants to rest, but Fiona keeps insisting there's something missing...buried. Soon the two have had a near-fatal brush with smugglers:and together they've unearthed the truth: about a pirate's history, about Jonathan Joppa, and about two remarkable women:one in the past, and one in the present. After a nerve#8211;shattering encounter with military justice in The Accused , Craig Parshall's third novel, all lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona... A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritance case involving Jonathan Joppa, a down-on-his-luck preacher#8212; "Piracy charge#8212;Joppa's ancestor? What...when?" "Why, for being part of Blackbeard's pirate crew...in the early 1700s..." Will just wants to rest, but Fiona keeps insisting there's something missing...buried. Soon the two have had a near#8211;fatal brush with smugglers#8212;and together they've unearthed the truth: about a pirate's history, about Jonathan Joppa, and about two remarkable women#8212;one in the past, and one in the present To protect an inheritance, Will Chambers must prove that one of a preacher's ancestors was not one of Blackbeard's pirates