Slipknot

By Linda Greenlaw

Book Overview

The exciting debut of a snappy, spirited, and irresistible mystery series from beloved and bestselling author Linda Greenlaw In her bestselling nonfiction book All Fishermen Are Liars , Linda Greenlaw confessed a desire to write fiction--and readers responded with an enthusiastic "Please do " At last, she satisfies their hunger with this sharp-witted, compulsively readable mystery, the first in a series featuring marine investigator Jane Bunker. When Jane moves back to the sleepy Maine fishing community where she was born, it's to escape the seamy crime scenes and unsavory characters that crossed her path in Miami. Surely whatever crimes are committed in touristy, idyllic Green Haven won't involve anything as nasty as what she saw in Florida. It's a bit of a shock, then, when Nick Dow, the town drunk, turns up dead, and it's not the simple accident that everyone assumes it to be. Jane soon discovers that Dow wasn't even a drunk--it was all an act. But why? And what does it have to do with a heated town hall meeting about fishing rights and paternity suits? The more Jane digs, the more confused she gets. Only two things are certain: Nothing is what it seems; and the whole town is in each other's business. But it's not until Jane impulsively hops on a boat with the killer--a boat that suddenly heads out to sea--that things become downright dangerous . . . As she proved in The Hungry Ocean , no one knows the sea like Linda Greenlaw. And as she proved in The Lobster Chronicles , no one has a better way with the telling details of Maine village life. This new mystery series features everything readers want: a great setting, wonderful characters, an authentic and original detective--and a story that will keep them on the edge of their seats.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786891238
• ISBN13: 9780786891238
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Hyperion Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Slipknot

Her first novel is as good as her fishing chronicles. She's a wonderful writer. She's one of the few good things to come out of the perfect storm.

She Always Delivers More Than Can Be Expected

Although I was a bit cautious with this being her first fiction I was ultimately as pleased as I had been with all her previous non-fiction. I knew Linda around the Portland, ME waterfront years before she wrote her first book. She was very good with everything she ever did. I'm pleased to see she is so well received in her writing, but I can't say it surprises me. She writes "wicked good".

Linda Greenlaw slips easily into fiction

I was worried when I found out Linda Greenlaw's newest book, Slipknot, was a murder mystery. I loved her non-fiction, but being a librarian I've read other authors who have tried and in my opinion failed. Relax. Linda keeps her sense of humor and her wonderful New England characters in perfect perspective. The detective is believable, intelligent, and fun. (Like I've always believed the author would be if I met her) I loved this book, and plan on keeping up my one-sided girlfriend relationship with Linda. Jo Faye Walker

THIS SUMMER'S MUST HAVE BEACH BOOK in NEW ENGLAND STATES!

I've read everything Greenlaw has to offer and loved everything; even the cookbook was a great "read." She is an author whose voice you hear in the background while reading---at least, that is how I perceived this book. I feel I sort of know her. Jane Bunker could very well be Linda Greenlaw as she writes with authority. Greenlaw's own true-life rendition of the triad of nasty n'or eastern storms in the middle of the Atlantic was titled "The Hungry Ocean," was mighty hard to put down. Sebastian Junger wrote a great book ("The Perfect Storm") about the storm, but you feel the first person narrative of Greenlaw's---stays with you longer. So, I liked this book because I knew what I was reading was well-researched or had been experienced first-hand. It's not brain surgery, it's not meant as the great american novel to end all novels---it is a great beach book that happens to be skillfully, expertly, and wonderfully wrought. I agree that the ending seems to leave a question about the heroine, Jane Bunker, but that's ok. It's nice to read something once in a while that leaves you wondering. Maybe Greenlaw will be coaxed into writing a sequel, or another in a series---maybe she is already at work on the next one. I hope so- because I like the setting. I live in Connecticut and have a simple basic knowledge about the fishing limits imposed on our dwindling fishing fleets and the debacle of protecting Long Island Sound from--you name it (Linda, if you read this, please come to CT for your next book-- there's lots more intrigue in these monied and overpriced homesteads on the waterfront, and I suspect a lot of skeletons in closets, not to mention an insurance investigator's playground...) There isn't anything else to say about this book other than it took me one morning the day after I received it, about 2.5 hours of time to complete it and, I couldn't even wait to go to the beach, I had to read it right away. I didn't want it to end. Except--one more thing, it's the perfect book to script into a movie; I could see a Julia Roberts-type with Jeff Bridges as the ---no wait. YOU read it & see what you think...!