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A Scream on the Water: A True Story of Murder in Salem [Mass Market Paperback]

Margaret Press (Author), Joan Noble Pinkham (Author)
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June 15, 1997
LURED ONTO A YACHT...
Although Salem, Massachusetts, once echoed with the screams of tortured women, it has long since been a quiet New England fishing village...until one warm summer day, when the peace was shattered by the cries of a young woman meeting a grisly fate.

TRAGICALLY CUT DOWN IN THE PRIME OF LIFE...
Happily married, Martha Brailsford was a lovely, talented young artist with a big heart who agreed to go for a sail with her neighbor Tom Maimoni. Little did she know that beneath his mild-mannered exterior, and behind his tearful tale of losing his wife to cancer, Maimoni was a cunning sociopath and pathological liar who had been married to four different women.

RUTHLESSLY PLUNGED INTO THE SEA...
The truth about Maimoni would surface only after Martha's body-- nude, skeletonized, and with an anchor wrapped around it-- turned up in the traps of a local lobsterman. As tranquil, idyllic Salem reeled from the shocking, sordid discovery, women began to come forward with their own tales of Maimoni's lies and depraved behavior.

Told with chilling detail, A Scream on the Water is the frightening account of a beloved young woman, a sadistic killer, and a violent struggle that ended in death on a dark and lonely Salem night.

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"Vivid...skillfully told...A detailed and engrossing account of a sensational murder case."--The Patriot Ledger

"Engrossing."--The Standard Times

"A fascinating account of what happened in the spring and summer of 1991 on Salem's waterfront...[this] is one of those books you cannot put down."--North Shore Magazine

About the Author

Margaret Press is the author of the Salem-based mystery novels, Requiem for a Postman, Carroll & Graf 1992, and Elegy for a Thief, Carroll & Graf 1993.

Raised in California, Press holds a doctorate in linguistics from UCLA. She worked as a speech and language specialist at a Boston school before making a career move into accounting and computer programming. She is currently a senior programmer-analyst. In addition to being a writer, Press is a private pilot in her spare time and enjoys aerial photography.

Joan Noble Pinkham studied film at NYU and The AFI in Los Angeles. She taught writing for film and television in London, Dublin, New York, and Boston. A former public relations executive and broadcaster, she now lives in Amesbury, Massachusetts, where she writes nautical yarns, mysteries, historical biographies and screenplays. She owns Sea & Coast Films and Pinkham & Associates, Literary Agents and teaches comedy, mystery and screenplay writing to students from all over New England.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 318 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (June 15, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312962991
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312962999
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #640,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars beware of pathological liars like Thomas Maimoni!, September 25, 2006
This review is from: A Scream on the Water: A True Story of Murder in Salem (Mass Market Paperback)
"A Scream on the Water" is the story of Thomas Maimoni, a narcissistic sociopath who lived a life of lies and abuse culminating in murder. This is a very well-written book. The setting is very well-developed. The descriptions of the people and places around Salem Mass. are well-rounded and satisfying. The reader feels as if they are there, and get inside the heads of the victim, her husband, the police investigators, and the wives of Maimoni and many other victims of his deceit and manipulation. For years Maimoni lied about everything to everyone: his marital status, military career (ha!), education, and jobs. This book is not only interesting to the true crime reader, it is like the works of Ann Rule in that the writer uses the opportunity to warn the innocent among us that people are often not as they present themselves. Even those who sensed that Maimoni was full of bull had no idea how explosive and deadly his rage could be when threatened with disclosure. A well-developed, psychologically complex, and thrilling cautionary tale.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars CREEPY IS AS CREEPY DOES, August 8, 2000
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Press did a thorough job in this true tale of a man who could not take no for an answer. Her character build of Tom Maimoni, a slipshod liar, NASA imposter, fake collegiate alumnus and all around creepy guy kept me riveted to the end. The strange death of local Martha Brailsford sent the small, close knit sailing/witching community of Salem Mass into a tailspin. The tailspin turned hurricane when numbers of women came forward after her death to report they had been pawed and humiliated by Maimoni. Good research, nicely done reconstruction and time line and tightly packaged facts which read like a novel. Margaret, what is your next crime?
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Alone again, September 6, 2009
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K. OBRIEN "kayobee" (New Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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Maybe my standards are just too high, but once again I find myself in the minority when it comes to rating a book.

I read the trade paperback edition, published as Counterpoint, so perhaps the St. Martins mass-market edition benefited from some vigorous editing. Heaven knows the book needed it.

What was it lacking? Pacing, any insight into those involved, decent exposition on how they came to be involved, a strong sense of chronology and cause-and-effect. I'd have learned as much in a great deal less time by reading a decent magazine article about the case.
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willows pier, diving belt, trawl line, swim ladder, nude sunbather, weight belt, dive team, missing woman
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Tom Maimoni, Kevin Mitchell, Martha Brailsford, Conrad Prosniewski, Thomas Maimoni, Bill Brailsford, Patti Maimoni, Settlers Way, Palmer's Cove Yacht Club, Hooper Goodwin, Salem Willows, Ray Mount, Rosemary Farmer, Coast Guard, Dick Urbanowicz, Essex County, Jeff Denner, Laurie Cabot, Pig's Eye, Salem Evening News, New Hampshire, Roxcy Platte, Parker Brothers, Rick Howard, Collins Cove
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