Set on the Outer Banks and Albemarle Sound areas of northeast North Carolina, Swan's Landing: a Webb Sawyer Mystery is the third novel in this series. When Webb Sawyer's young friend, Sunshine Bledsoe's mother goes missing, then later found buried in someone's back yard, Webb finds himself involved in his most bizarre investigation yet, one that leads him to Swan's Landing, a small rural fishing community in Perqumans County, North Carolina, to New York City, then back to the small town of Hertford, North Carolina where more than one person living there is running from their past.