From Publishers Weekly
Bluefish and adultery, infused with sun and sea and spiced with academic jealousy and local lore, are served up in Craig's second entertaining mystery set in Martha's Vineyard and featuring the agreeable Boston-cop-turned-fisherman, J. W. Jackson. Literature professors Ian McGregor and elderly, acid-tongued Marjorie Summerharp are on the island writing a paper about a lost Shakespearean play. Jackson's true love, Zee Madeiras, has begun dating the charming McGregor when Summerharp's body turns up in a trawling net. Jackson, using his knowledge of the tides, suspects she has been murdered. Tracing the dead woman's recent past, he meets other, mostly randy, academics summering on the Vineyard; a couple running an upscale meditation center that also offers physical fulfillment; and Tristan Cooper, an 80-year-old former professor most interested now in local stones he believes are evidence of European settlement long before Columbus. Red herrings swim with the bluefish as hardy/sensitive Jackson weathers storms climatic and emotional to win back his girl and solve the mystery.
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From Library Journal
Fisherman, ex-Boston cop, and sometime sleuth J.W. Jackson ( A Beautiful Place To Die ) searches for an explanation of the drowning death off Martha's Vineyard of crusty, opinionated scholar Marjorie Summerharp, an excellent swimmer. Suspecting murder most foul, J.W. looks for motive and opportunity among the woman's acquaintances, including the Lothario-like coauthor of her soon-to-be-released article on a lost Shakespeare play and the slick pair operating a questionable "health retreat" for the wealthy. Local atmosphere suffuses each page as the seemingly minor plot develops dire complications and culminates in a captivating drug-induced and storm-wracked conclusion. Most enjoyable.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
