Apparition Island
Jenifer LeClair
Conquill Press, Mar 21 2015, $15.00
www.conquillpress.com
ISBN 9780990846109
Still
on medical leave after being shot and her partner killed while on duty several
months ago, Minneapolis Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont works as a second mate
on the Schooner Maine Wind sailing with passengers and crew along the New
England coast. When the torrential rains
and winds of Hurricane Ivan begin to blow in force off Maine, Captain John
DuLac sails for Apparition
Island.
As
they near their anchoring locale, Brie shouts “man overboard!” John notifies the Coast Guard while they
bring a deceased female onboard. On Apparition Island, Brie, who
also helps the Maine State Police, learns the victim was reporter
Claire Whitehall. She also finds out
that the dead journalist was researching the Outer Banks “lobster wars”. Though the islanders remain uncooperative and
taciturn, Claire’s investigation leads her to the 1958 cold case death of
Blythe Danes Whitehall and consequently threats on her own life.
The
fourth Windjammer mystery (see Rigged for Murder, Danger Sector and Cold Coast)
contains a fabulous police procedural located on a temporarily locked down
Maine island. Fans will believe they are
visiting the isolated picturesque location made bleaker by the hurricane and
meeting its reticent residents. Jenifer LeClair provides her
fans with another thrilling investigation in a consistently
excellent series.
Harriet
Klausner
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