title: Bilge Water Bones: A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
author:  Glynn Marsh Alam 
description: Glynn Marsh Alam is a native Floridian. Born in Tallahassee, she is familiar with the live oak forests and cypress swamps of the area. She also knows the sinkholes and reptilia that abound there. She often swims in the cold, clear springs above the openings to fathomless caves. These are the settings for her Luanne Fogarty mystery series (Deep Water Death, Dive Deep and Deadly, Cold Water Corpse) and for her literary novel, River Whispers. <P>After graduating from Florida State University, Glynn worked as a decoder/ translator for the National Security Agency in D.C., then moved to Los Angeles where she taught writing and literature and earned an MA in linguistics. After many years of traveling back to Florida twice a year, she has now moved there and writes full time.
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  PART ONE
  
  
  ## CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  ### THE HOUSE OF THE BONE WITCH
  
  
  
  
  
  “Oy, ice-boy! You sure you know where you’re going?”
  
  
  I ignored Robin Goodfel ow as we wove through the gray murk of the wyldwood,
  pushing farther into the soggy swamp known as the Bone Marsh. Mud sucked at my
  footsteps, and water dripped from twisted green trees so covered in moss they
  appeared sheathed in slime. Mist coiled around the exposed roots or pooled in
  sunken areas, hiding what lay beneath, and every so often there was a splash
  in the stil waters farther out, reminding us that we were not alone. As its
  name suggested, bones were scattered throughout the marsh, jutting out of the
  mud, half-hidden in tangles of weeds or shimmering beneath the surface of the
  water, bleached and white. This was a dangerous part of the wyldwood, more so
  than most— not because of the catoblepas and the jabberwocks and other
  monsters that cal ed the dark swamp their home, but bec