Dead Astern

by Jenifer LeClair

Overview

A Gripping Sea Adventure Set on the Gulf of Maine. Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont returns in a riveting psychological thriller featuring a cast of dark and troubled characters.

Something feels amiss about the group of seven friends who charter Maine Wind for a late season cruise that turns deadly when one of them is lost overboard. While making for homeport, Brie investigates a case that becomes more enigmatic at every turn. As she drills down through layers of hatred, mistrust, and deception, old crimes come to light, and tensions ratchet up with each passing hour. When a storm looms at sea, the closed environment of the ship weighs heavy on them all as death stalks this ill-fated cruise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733608435
Publisher:	Fog Harbor Press
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Series:	Windjammer Mystery , #5
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	310
Sales rank:	162,486
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

In her Windjammer Mystery Series, Jenifer LeClair vividly captures Maine's islands and coastal regions where she has sailed since 1995. DEAD ASTERN is the fifth of six novels in her award-winning series. Ms. LeClair lives in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota with her family. Visit her website at: www.windjammermysteries.com

Editorial Reviews

“Dead Astern is the book Agatha Christie might have written if she’d loved the sea and had known how to trim a sail. Jenifer LeClair offers readers an engaging tale that is a strong, seagoing version of the locked-room mystery. With several well-plotted twists, lots of riveting scenes on the bounding main, and plenty of fascinating sailing information along the way, Dead Astern is an exciting excursion sure to please anyone willing to sign on for the voyage.”--William Kent Krueger; New York Times Bestselling Author

"LeClair smoothly integrates Brie’s investigation with her private life, and she describes life on the windjammer (including the cook’s fabulous meals) as so much fun it makes a landlubber want to board. There’s a lot of working with the sails here, which will interest sailors but might slow down someone not familiar with rigging. Happily, LeClair includes a glossary of nautical terms."--St. Paul Pioneer Press

"Each man has something to hide, and each tries to cast suspicion on the others in what turns into a murder case. No surprise—it seems they all had reason to dislike or fear Peter. A subplot involving Brie’s relationship with John DuLac, the Maine Wind’s captain, provides some romantic interest. The nautical terminology will appeal to sailors, and for landlubbers a glossary of terms is included."--Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

01/16/2017
In LeClair’s middling fifth Windjammer mystery (after 2015’s Apparition Island), seven friends have chartered the Maine Wind for a late-season cruise off the coast of Maine. The second mate, homicide detective Brie Beaumont, is currently on leave from the Minneapolis PD. When one of the seven, Peter Bendoff, goes overboard one night, it appears to be a case of suicide based on the note that Brie finds in Peter’s cabin. But as Brie starts to interview the remaining six, tensions among the group, which were obvious from the moment they boarded, increase. Each man has something to hide, and each tries to cast suspicion on the others in what turns into a murder case. No surprise—it seems they all had reason to dislike or fear Peter. A subplot involving Brie’s relationship with John DuLac, the Maine Wind’s captain, provides some romantic interest. The nautical terminology will appeal to sailors, though landlubbers may feel lectured-to rather than transported. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly