Sunday Salon: Dead drunks
Not very much by way of reading this week, but I did manage to finish and review the first installment in Linda Greenlaw's series featuring marine insurance investigator Jane Bunker.
I've also been reading Who Named the Knife, about a murder in Hawaii (nonfiction). It's interesting enough to finish, but not gripping enough to stay up late reading, and so I haven't been....
Hyperion © 2007, 278 pages
Jane Bunker moved north from Miami only days before Nick Dow, the town drunk of Green Haven, Maine, washed up on the beach with his head bashed in--possibly the result of a drunken fall, but maybe not. Jane, who'd been a homicide detective in Florida, is among the first to see the body, and though it's no longer in her job description--she's now a marine insurance investigator--she decides to investigate the death on her own by way of having a hobby. The more she looks into the death, the more fishy it seems to be. Jane suspects it's connected to the hot-button issue that's got the town riled up, the proposed creation of a wind farm off-shore, which would likely have an adverse effect on the town's cod fishing industry.
Posted by Debra Hamel on June 29, 2008 | 
