Michelle Mitchell, a tough deep-sea diver and single mom, finds her underwater skills necessary when she returns home to northern Michigan near Lake Huron and starts investigating her father's mysterious death. By the author of Motown Underground.
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Allyn (Motown Underground) plumbs the deep secrets of a small town on Michigan's upper peninsula in this action-packed tale of shipwreck salvages, murder and an intricate struggle between families. When her father dies, Michelle Mitchell leaves the Texas Gulf and her work as a deep-water welder for her father's cabin on the shore of Lake Huron and his seedy bar, the Crow's Nest. From Mitch's arrival up north, when she pitches a chair through the bar's front window, Allyn suggests that you might go home again, but the process can be bruising. Mitch discovers that her dad, a tough old codger who was not above an illegal salvage or two, died under suspicious circumstances. She learns that her son (who spends the length of the book at boarding school), whom she bore after being raped by wealthy local Alec Devereaux, was the object of mysterious, unsavory dealings between her father and the Devereaux family. Although the plot follows a wild course and Allyn barely gets below the surface of his characters, he brings the lake to life-especially in a suspenseful, chilling description of a dive that figures in the resolution.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Michelle " Mitch" Mitchell is a thirtysomething single mom who's been making a living as a deep-sea diver in the Gulf of Mexico. When her father, Shan, dies, she heads to northern Michigan to settle his affairs. The official version has Shan drunk, driving into a ditch, and drowning in a couple feet of water. But something doesn't ring true to Mitch, so she does a little snooping around and discovers that her father was a dealer in contraband from wrecks discovered in Lake Huron. She also discovers that dear old Dad was involved in a scam that would have resulted in her losing custody of her teenage son. Soon Mitch realizes that nothing about her life and her family is what it seems to be. The dual plot lines--salvage smuggling and grandchild bartering--never converge as one might expect, but both are satisfyingly resolved. This is a well-plotted novel featuring a tough, self-contained protagonist forced to reappraise every notion she ever held about her past and future. Wes Lukowsky
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This review is from: Icewater Mansions (Paperback)
Allyn is a solid mystery writer. His heroine is very engaging. But the story here didn't seem to me to be up to his standards. I liked "Black Water" and "Welcome to Wolf County" much better. He does include some quotable quotes though (I collect them):
Protection? I'd be safer dancing Swan Lake in a buffalo stampede. page 191 `You look a little drawn," he said. `I feel drawn. By an artist with a broken arm.' page 193.
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The type of book you can't put down!! ...............,
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This review is from: Icewater Mansions (Paperback)
I could not put this book down ,Icewater Mansions capture and held my attention till the very end!!! Then I was sorry I had reached the end.... The next book in this "Mitch" Mitchell series is called Black water.... I can't wait to begin it
4.0 out of 5 stars
A definite page-turner.,
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Allyn is a recent discovery for me and am I ever glad I found him. His books are fast-paced and exciting with great characters, both human and animal, excellent sense of place, some great lines and just a touch of the mystical. This was a very good, straight-through, don't-bother-me-now read.
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