Siren Song

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FICTION / MYSTERY "I love novels where place alsó becomes character. Stephen Schwandt's Siren Song gives Door County, Wisconsin, a starring role and she knows how to show herself off. As for his hero, JP Griffin, he is just troubled enough and dark enough to keep me reading and advising and puzzling until the very end. What more could any mystery reader ask for?" -JUDITH GUEST, author of Ordínary People and the mystery The Tarníshed Eye In Siren Song, a tale of past murder and present menace, a burned-out schoolteacher, JP Griffin, flees his Minneapolis job for the woods and waterways where northern Wisconsin juts into Laké Michigan. There, on Wisconsin's Door County peninsula, he buys a used cabin cruiser, aiming to decompress and sort out his unraveling life. He gradually discovers that the boát holds grim secrets left by its previous owner, a local cop who was killed just as Griffin arrived in the area. Hidden clues to a past murder victim's long-missing hoard of cash, threats... Tovább

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FICTION / MYSTERY "I love novels where place alsó becomes character. Stephen Schwandt's Siren Song gives Door County, Wisconsin, a starring role and she knows how to show herself off. As for his hero, JP Griffin, he is just troubled enough and dark enough to keep me reading and advising and puzzling until the very end. What more could any mystery reader ask for?" -JUDITH GUEST, author of Ordínary People and the mystery The Tarníshed Eye In Siren Song, a tale of past murder and present menace, a burned-out schoolteacher, JP Griffin, flees his Minneapolis job for the woods and waterways where northern Wisconsin juts into Laké Michigan. There, on Wisconsin's Door County peninsula, he buys a used cabin cruiser, aiming to decompress and sort out his unraveling life. He gradually discovers that the boát holds grim secrets left by its previous owner, a local cop who was killed just as Griffin arrived in the area. Hidden clues to a past murder victim's long-missing hoard of cash, threats and pursuit by others intent on finding it, and intense ethical dilemmas all confront Griffin as he copes with crime on the water. KH Praise for Stephen Schwandt's earlier növel THE LAST GOODIE Believable emotional growth and conflict." -JOHN D. MAC DONALD, late author of the Travis McGee mysteries Ifc ..^J STEPHEN SCHWANDT is the author of five award-winning young-adult novels. One, Guilt Trip, was a finalist for an Edgár Allan Poe Award, bestowed on the best mysteries by the Mystery Writers of America, and was praised by Elmore Leonard. Schwandt's young-adult novels have been named a "best book" by the New York, Philadelphia and other public libraries and the American Booksell'ers Association. Schwandt, a high school and community college writing and literature teacher, lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and on Washington Island, Wisconsin. This is Schwandt's first aduit növel. Additional information on the author and his work can be found on his website, www.StephenSchwandt.com. Vissza