Ian McColgin
06-15-2008, 09:38 PM
"Slipknot" is Linda Greenlaw's first work of fiction. It's been out long enough that I got it in paper and the second in her Jane Bunker series in progress, "Fisherman's Bend", is out.
Our heroine, Jane Bunker, was transplanted from Maine to Florida as a child by her mother, fleeing an abusive marriage. After rising to the top as a Dade County homocide detective she tosses it all - backstory no doubt to be doled out over the next few numbers - to be a rookie maratime insurance investigator back at Green Haven, Maine, just mainland from her Bunker relatives.
So it's natural for her to check it out when she shows up planning a routine safety check for an insurance upgrade at Turner's Fishplant and finds a floater - the town drunk.
Along the way we face invasive species, closures, and insurance fraud at several levels.
And, of course, murder.
Also a glorious storm at sea chapter.
It's great.
I am a known Greenlaw fan to the point where some of my friends claim that I am Charter Boy. I'm not. I would be if Capt. Greenlaw liked sailboats and sailing for pleasure, or if I still had the taste for the incredibly hard work of fishing but such are the pangs of not just unrequited but even unmet love . . .
Our heroine, Jane Bunker, was transplanted from Maine to Florida as a child by her mother, fleeing an abusive marriage. After rising to the top as a Dade County homocide detective she tosses it all - backstory no doubt to be doled out over the next few numbers - to be a rookie maratime insurance investigator back at Green Haven, Maine, just mainland from her Bunker relatives.
So it's natural for her to check it out when she shows up planning a routine safety check for an insurance upgrade at Turner's Fishplant and finds a floater - the town drunk.
Along the way we face invasive species, closures, and insurance fraud at several levels.
And, of course, murder.
Also a glorious storm at sea chapter.
It's great.
I am a known Greenlaw fan to the point where some of my friends claim that I am Charter Boy. I'm not. I would be if Capt. Greenlaw liked sailboats and sailing for pleasure, or if I still had the taste for the incredibly hard work of fishing but such are the pangs of not just unrequited but even unmet love . . .