BLACK DUCK
BOOK REVIEW | Great beginning to this book... An interview, a beach, and a dead body. From the book jacket:
This one's a good read, a gritty piece of suspense fiction that takes place on the Prohibition-era shores of a small Rhode Island town. Two best friends, one the son of the police chief and one whose father is the manager of the local general store, find the body of a notorious rumrunner abandoned on the beach, and the mystery unfolds from there. Who killed this guy? Why? Pay close attention and you'll catch the hints the author leaves for you. Along the way you'll meet an old fisherman living in a shack, mobsters from New York and Boston, a couple of dogs you wouldn't want to mess with, and the captain of a rumrunning ship that has a Robin Hood-type reputation amongst the locals.
You'll find this one in our Historical Fiction section, but it would be just as easily at home in our Action & Suspense section. Enjoy!
What happened next that spring afternoon is something I know Jeddy remembers. I can see us standing there, two raw-boned boys beside the bootleg crate, seagulls wheeling overhead, making dives on a tidal pool up the beach from us. Almost as an afterthought we wandered toward this pool, not expecting to see anything. It came into view with no more drama than if it had been a sodden piece of driftwood lying on the sand: a naked human leg.
This one's a good read, a gritty piece of suspense fiction that takes place on the Prohibition-era shores of a small Rhode Island town. Two best friends, one the son of the police chief and one whose father is the manager of the local general store, find the body of a notorious rumrunner abandoned on the beach, and the mystery unfolds from there. Who killed this guy? Why? Pay close attention and you'll catch the hints the author leaves for you. Along the way you'll meet an old fisherman living in a shack, mobsters from New York and Boston, a couple of dogs you wouldn't want to mess with, and the captain of a rumrunning ship that has a Robin Hood-type reputation amongst the locals.
You'll find this one in our Historical Fiction section, but it would be just as easily at home in our Action & Suspense section. Enjoy!
