2/21/12

Book of the Week #8

Harbor Ice by K. D. Mason (Kittery Point, Me.: Smith Kerr Associates, 2009).


K. D. Mason lives and writes on New Hampshire's seacoast. His Jack Beale mysteries (yes, I'm still on a mystery kick) are set in a fictional version of his home ground. Harbor Ice is the first in the series.
It  has been a brutally cold winter in the New Hampshire coastal town of Rye Harbor, leaving drifts of sea water frozen solid in the salt marsh. Finally, the weather warms enough for the ice to begin to break up and drift out to sea. That’s when a woman’s body is found under a slab of ice left by the outgoing tide. Max, the feisty redheaded bartender at Ben’s Place, recognizes that the body in the ice is her aunt’s partner. This triggers a series of events that will eventually threaten Max’s life as well. It is up to her best friend, Jack Beale, to unravel the mystery.(publisher's blurb)

Mr. Mason did a reading recently at Rye Public Library. If you missed him there, he has several other NH appearances coming up. Personally, I'm hoping to make it to the May event.

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