Review: A Solid Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
Tainted Waters by Maggi Thom is both a mystery and suspense. Sam, the heroine of the story, has a checkered past of jobs that never last long. The most recent one was she half way liked as a newspaper reporter, except there was no real news just fluffy tales of local events. Maybe she needed to sort her life out and the best place to do it is the isolated cabin bordering the lagoon.  Last time she visited the place was twenty years before her father committed suicide at the very same place.Keegan Wesley is a writer who needs a quiet place to write and finds himself at the lagoon too. He has some questions regarding his grandfather's death that seems a bit unclear. He teams up with Sam who starts to question her own father's suicide and the number of deaths from the four original landholder families. It would appear as if someone wants the land bad enough to kill for it.Tainted Waters moves fast, turning over stones, and finding more questions than answers. Sam shines as an investigative reporter, but is unsure who to trust. It is not clear to the very end whom the culprit is. I always consider that a sign of a good mystery. Spelling alert: it is a Canadian author so some of the words are spelled differently, not wrong, different. They probably say the same thing about American authors in Canada.Tainted Water includes danger, dead bodies, questions and a bevy of bad guys. The real question is was Sam's father murdered. How will her life change if she knows he didn't willing leave her? I think this book will appeal to both mystery and suspense fans.