Coastal Disturbance

by Jessica Speart

Book Overview

In many ways, hot-tempered field agent Rachel Porter deals better with endangered animals than she does with people -- which is why her superiors at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dispatch her to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380820625
• ISBN13: 9780380820627
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Agent helps solve murder

Rachel Porter is an U. S. Fish and Wildlife Agent. She has once again been relocated to another god-forsaken place because of her hot temper. This time she's working in Georgia's steaming coastal swampland.In an attempt to put her personal life in order, Jake Santou got transferred to Savannah by the FBI so that they could try living together. They are working on commitment, but she's still not ready for marriage.Rachel gives Clark Williams, former Undersecretary of Interior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks a ticket for shooting clapper rail birds from a running motor boat. He gets it withdrawn. She is fit to be tied! And, this is just the beginning of her troubles.Gary Fletcher, Fish and Wildlife containment specialist, brings to her attention that Wendell Holmes is operating an illegal manatee water park. These mammals are dying in alarming numbers and no one knows why. She is determined to shut it down before anymore die. Then people begin dying and things turn toxic.As she begins investigating, she discovers a tangled web tying everyone and everything together. Now if she can just untangle the web before any more manatees or people die.The only constant characters in this series are Rachel, Jake and Terri, her cross-dressing friend from New Orleans. But, they aren't in every book. I think one of the things I like most about this series is the fact that there is a new boss and a landlady/landlord to get to know in each book because she is in a new location. But she always butts heads with her boss and often her landlady/landlord are older. She comes up with some of the most unique characters for her books. You must read this book, I highly recommend it. I can't wait for the next one.

Everyone knows a new word....

This would have been a five star book if it had not been for the repetitive use of "for crissakes". The first few times caused me to chuckle. Then,everyone used the expression at least 10 times, and our heroine used it probably 50-60 times. Gee, what happened to the good old "F" word? Surely it could have been thrown in a few times. Other than that gripe, it was very good read as has been all of the others Ms. Speart has written. Her books always make me want to visit the area Rachel has found herself.