Customer Reviews

Bodies of Water

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Except for the "snobby white people" comment, I agree with Ronin about this book. The writing is thick and awkward, the story is not particularly interesting, and the characters are all fairly unpleasant. I'm still plowing through it, but not sure how long I'll last ...

Grad student/teaching fellow Sarah Deane and her boyfriend, Alex McKenzie, M.D., go for a cruise on a luxury yacht owned by fatherly millionaire evangelist David Mallory, who distributes Bibles to churches along the Maine coast and, as a sideline, keeps a lookout for suspicious-looking boats that might harbor drug dealers. Before long, the oddest and most unpleasant crew member is found dead in the water. This book might be just your cup of tea if you enjoy a leisurely-paced cozy with idiosyncratic characters and plenty of literary references: John Buchan's Richard Hannay, hero of the classic thriller "The 39 Steps," holds the key to solving the mystery. (And, if only Sarah had read it, the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" might have shed further light on the case.)

This was a cute mystery. At times, the answers to some of the mysteries seem obvious and one doubts the intelligence of the protagonist (herself a college professor.) The imagery of sailing on the Maine coast is often vivid. All in all, this is a very cozy mystery that makes you want to continue solving crimes with the hero.

This is a boring book. It takes forever for anything to happen. It's mostly just the main character judging everyone while she is involved in an immoral relationship herself. All that aside, there aren't really any likable characters. It almost seems like this book was written for snobby white people.

I've not read any of the other books in this series, but I know I won't after reading this one.