title: The Black Flag
author: Stacks, Barry
description: This is the third book in the Tucker Norman series. Once again, the setting for the story is Gloucester, Mass., which is the author's hometown. The title of the book is taken from a tradition of flying a black flag on a commercial fishing boat when someone has died at sea. In this mystery novel, several fishing boats return to Gloucester flying a black flag. Once again Tucker Norman and Associates are asked by local law enforcement to investigate this unusual situation. The investigation delivers the reader through a maze of complicated evidence and into a quagmire filled with strange characters, who appear to have a secondary motive for their activities. The reader, as is always the case, is dragged around Cape Ann as our sleuth tries to fit the pieces of the puzzle together. Also, the reader will find themselves dumped in that pot of boiling water known around the world as Haiti. This is another thrilling adventure/mystery written especially for the citizens of Cape Ann. Your author was born and raised on the piece of geography that is the backdrop for this novel. This is his 14th book where he takes the reader back home to the streets he knew as a young man. Barry is a graduate (Magna Cum Laude) of Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL and a Graduate Fellow of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. He spent many of his youthful years in the music business, but later found comfort in the written word. He was editor of The Gargoyle, his college newspaper, and he later published his own nautical newspaper, Mile Marker Zero, when he lived in Key West. He is currently working on three more additions to the Tucker Norman series. Please check out his website, Gloucesterlostboy.com.