Shark Island by Joan Druett
Remember last month when I raved about the new seafaring mystery/adventure. Well here I go again about book 2 in the series, Shark Island.
This time Wiki Coffin, Captain George Rochester, and the despicable Lieutenant Forsythe (along with his equally ghastly crony, Passed Midshipman Zachary Kingman) are sent to Shark Island to check out a report of pirates. Readers of the first book will know the first three, and Kingman is like the red shirt character in a Star Trek landing party, disposable. Instead of pirates, they find a stranded sealing ship, and everyone pitches in to advise, or help repair the damage. Unusually, the captain of the vessel has brought his wife with him on the sealing voyage. And she and Wiki have ‘history’.
Several murders later, Wiki solves the crime, the sealer is seaworthy and all the survivors get back to the exploration fleet. It sounds trite when I say it here, but the story certainly was not. There are more twists than Agatha Christie and I still haven’t worked out who got the money.
Am I raving again? That is good, I meant to. Now Buzz editor, I want book 3, Run Afoul.
