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Book ReviewsLandlocked Sailors: A Pike's Marina Novel |
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Book: Landlocked Sailors: A Pike's Marina Novel
Written by: Dave Bednar |
Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Review of Fish or Cut Bait - by Warren Thurston
Rating:
5 / 5
This excellent book shows how one person's deceit can ruin many people's lives. Set in Erie Pennsylvania the mystery starts on the very first page. As the book progresses more pieces are added to the puzzle, to tempt the reader to seek out its ending.
Jack Craville is a guy happy with his lot in life. He is content to take clients out on his boat the Seadawg to catch fish. The messy job of scaling and cleaning the fish he leaves to his mate Mickey.
Getting involved in deep personal relationships has not been a part of Jack's life since his childhood sweetheart Gina broke up with him. The only woman that he had truly loved left him for another man. It was not just an ordinary man either, but rich Steve Sterling Rollins.
Jack thought that he would never see Gina again and that if he did that he would not care about her. He was wrong on both counts that fateful day, when Gina emerged from an Erie fog. It was the day that a fishing boat was towed in from the lake with all its crew missing.
That day Jack and all of those people at Pike's Marina he called his friends began a journey. It was a journey that became more perilous as it progressed. Leading to events that no one in their wildest dreams, could have predicted that they would happen in Erie.
Dave Bednar has written a tale that captures the reader's curiosity from the first page to the last. It flows smoothly as the plot gradually reveals that all is not as it seems. The ending is one that is compliments the novel with its delicate twist.
Those readers, who enjoy their mystery novels with a dash of humor and some hard-hitting action, will delight in Fish or Cut Bait. ...
Midwest Book Review - a hearty recommendation
Rating:
5 / 5
In this first book of the Pike's Marina series, Dave Bednar establishes himself with a distinct voice as wordsmith and story teller. Landlocked Sailors not only has murder, action and suspense, but appealing prose describing the Erie PA locales. And it's all tied up into a neat package with quirky characters, realistic dialog, and humor.
Thomas Teague is one of the main characters, ex-special agent in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service looking for a quiet place to light. Teague is a wounded warrior, stoically bearing the aftermath of injuries that forced his retirement. All he wants is to charter out his boat to tourist types, admire Beth Osgood from a safe distance, and be left the hell alone. Teague enjoys quiet thoughts about his hero-father's days in WW II and listening to Glenn Miller music. He leads a purposely solitary life in hopes his past won't find him.
Jack Crevalle is the exact opposite of Teague. Crevalle has a heroic background of his own in the Coast Guard, but hides such courage well beneath a devil-may-care facade. Jack lives on his boat, playing loud music that grates on Teague's nerves, raucously enjoying one night stands that keep his boat rocking in its slip at Pike's Marina. Jack drinks too much, happily flaunts his appetite for females, and talks too loud. Still, there's something likable about the guy.
Beth Osgood's father owns Pike's Marina. Recently divorced, she's come back home to Erie to reclaim the safe and stable kind of life she's always known. Crevalle's crass ways turn her off completely, but she's more than just a bit intrigued by the quiet, world-worn Thomas Teague. Beth is a knockout - smart, feminine, athletic, self-assured - but fits into the odd group of folks at Pike's Marina like she's just one of the boys.
When the sweet natured, self-appointed security guard for Pike's Marina is bludgeoned to death for no apparent, this group and their friends set out to find answers. Everyone loved the murdered Liam, especially Beth and Teague. Who could possibly have reason to snuff out an innocent like Liam?
Finding the murderer won't be an easy task. The Great Lakes Sails Festival begins the same day as the murder and Erie is packed with tourists and sailors from around the world. Teague has a hunch that his past has returned to haunt him. He's soon proven right when an old nemesis shows himself. No one is safe from Russell Zurkis, whose history of insanity and murderous inclinations have joined forces to eliminate Thomas Teague and anyone he cares about. The gang will have to go some to escape the crazy Russell's wrath.
I give this book a hearty recommendation, for all the aforementioned reasons and more. Mr. Bednar has a fine beginning here, and I eagerly anticipate the second in his Pike's Marina Series. Look for a review of that second book to follow this one. Count your lucky stars, readers, because both Landlocked Sailors and Fish or Cut Bait have been released as of this writing.
Awesome first book
Rating:
5 / 5
This book is one of those you won't put down until you are done reading it. It is very well written(not long and wordy like many authors first trys)It's fun, enjoyable reading and has enough twists and turns to keep the reader at the edge of their seat.Anyone who likes any type of nautical theme will thoroughly enjoy this. The murder mystery has an exciting ending. I highly recommend this book.
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