DEADLY CATCH NAMED LIBRARY JOURNAL DEBUT OF THE MONTH FOR NOVEMBER!!!
DEBUT OF THE MONTH!
Orange Review Star -- Mystery Reviews November 1, 2013 Helms, E. Michael. Deadly Catch: A Mac McClellan Mystery. Seventh St. Bks: Prometheus. Nov. 2013. 200p. ISBN 9781616148676. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616148683.
Looking for purpose in his life, the newly retired and divorced Mac McClellan goes on a fishing vacation in the Florida Panhandle. Wouldn’t you know it, he snags a corpse. A few days later, someone plants a bag of marijuana on his boat. Surprised to be considered a suspect, Mac weighs his options and figures he’d better protect his interests and find out who killed young Maddie Harper and her fiancé, Brett Barfield (his body is found later). Neither the local sheriff nor the city police chief strike Mac as trustworthy, but Kate Bell, a local businesswoman, might fit the bill. VERDICT: This debut from a Vietnam War memoirist (The Proud Bastards) will resonate with retired military, boomers, and all Florida crime fiction fans. Although the plotline is perhaps too familiar, Helms’s love of his novel’s setting, and his engaging first-person narrative and internal musings suggest a winning new series is under way.
Orange Review Star -- Mystery Reviews November 1, 2013 Helms, E. Michael. Deadly Catch: A Mac McClellan Mystery. Seventh St. Bks: Prometheus. Nov. 2013. 200p. ISBN 9781616148676. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616148683.
Looking for purpose in his life, the newly retired and divorced Mac McClellan goes on a fishing vacation in the Florida Panhandle. Wouldn’t you know it, he snags a corpse. A few days later, someone plants a bag of marijuana on his boat. Surprised to be considered a suspect, Mac weighs his options and figures he’d better protect his interests and find out who killed young Maddie Harper and her fiancé, Brett Barfield (his body is found later). Neither the local sheriff nor the city police chief strike Mac as trustworthy, but Kate Bell, a local businesswoman, might fit the bill. VERDICT: This debut from a Vietnam War memoirist (The Proud Bastards) will resonate with retired military, boomers, and all Florida crime fiction fans. Although the plotline is perhaps too familiar, Helms’s love of his novel’s setting, and his engaging first-person narrative and internal musings suggest a winning new series is under way.
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