Review: A Real 'Who Done It' Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2012
Markus and his wife, Angela, move from Oakland, CA to a quiet, peaceful, small town on the coast of northern California.  Stagger Bay is a former lumber town that is suffering from the loss of industry.  Markus and his wife enjoy their young son and their new life away from high crime Oakland.  However, it's not long before some murders are committed and Markus is tagged, sent to prison for several years, during which time his wife commits suicide and his son, Sam, is raised by Markus' brother, Karl, in Stagger Bay.  One day an attorney arrives at the prison and tells Markus that he has been exonerated from that crime.  He is released and returns to Stagger Bay to learn that his grown son wants nothing to do with him and that his brother had been killed by the police in a supposedly drug related incident.  He feels that Stagger Bay holds nothing for him, yet he is swept into finding the truth behind the murders for which he was once convicted.  He also discovers corruption in many forms and is swept further into uncovering the secrets of this community.  This is a great story that moves right along with well developed characters.  You, too, will be swept right along in this action-packed novel.