Sins of Silence
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Sailing instructor Kellie Montgomery discovers a luxury yacht drifting aimlessly outside a Seattle Marina--with its owners on board dead from gunshots to the head. When Kellie sets out to find their killer, she uncovers a web of secrets that link the victims' sordid past to her own family. Probing the murky depths of murder soon proves far more treacherous than any seas she's ever sailed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wilcox's debut, and the first of her Elliot Bay mystery series, features plucky sailing instructor Kellie Montgomery. A 40-year-old widow, Kellie lives alone aboard a sailboat moored in a marina near Seattle. A neighboring slip harbors the yacht belonging to the attorney who found Kellie a daughter through private adoption 20 years earlier. When the attorney and his wife are discovered murdered out on the bay, Kellie's curiosity is aroused, though given her tenuous connections to the couple her motivations are murky. Still, Wilcox does a good job of bringing depth and resonance to Kellie and her unusual life. The storyline remains on course, even though it bobs among several gritty subjects: black-market baby adoptions, adoptees seeking their natural parents, and horrid secrets of child abuse. Altogether this is a distinctive and intriguing launch.
