Fisherman's Bend (Jane Bunker) | Linda Greenlaw

Fisherman's Bend (Jane Bunker) | Linda Greenlaw | Enjoyable Afternoon Read

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	Fisherman's Bend (Jane Bunker) Linda Greenlaw Hyperion, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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This one's a keeper...

The second Jane Bunker mystery by Linda Greenlaw, the book goes a long way toward estaablishing the character as one I want to get to know even better. The setting is Maine, the ambience is fishing village, there is some humor, and the mysteries hold water. This time the plot has fewer soft spots than in the earlier Greenlaw mystery, and kept me reading. I prefer Greenlaw's real life adventures as a fishing boat captain, but I gather her success is keeping her on dry land now. This is the kind of mystery that makes you crave a fireplace and a cat. Pour yourself some tea, add a tot of rum, and lure in the neighborhood kitty. It's a good, easy read, lots of fun, with an excellent developing character in our insurance gal/sleuth. I'm already waiting for book 3.

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Enjoyable Afternoon Read

Not every enjoyable read needs to be a great work of fiction. Sometimes it just needs to be interesting enough. Fisherman's Bend is one such novel. Greenlaw presents us with an interesting enough character, an intriguing enough plot, in a remote enough setting; ample material for a pleasant afternoon read. Which is exactly how I spent an afternoon on my boat in the Thousand Islands, reading Fisherman's Bend.

Other reviewers have offered descriptions and opinions on the plot and character, I need not review them here. Suffice it to say that I found Jane Bunker a believable character and the plot realistic. Greenlaw's knowledge of Maine and the waterfront is evident and she raises a few concerns about conflicting issues over dwindling resources.

So, would I pick up another Jane Bunker Mystery? Probably, especially around the time I take off on next summer's cruise.

Dave Lochner
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A Bit on the Mediocre Side

I RECEIVED THIS BOOK FOR REVIEW ON THE VINE PROGRAM:

I'd like to say better things about this book -- it's my first encounter with author Linda Greenlaw and her investigator Jane Bunker. But all this detail on Maine fishing gets to be a bit stifling, certainly more than interests me (or the average reader, I suspect). And her insistence on detail permeates the book. For a city-slicker investigator Jane seems lost among all these quaint Maine types who seem to have escaped from the pilot for a sitcom that didn't get picked up.

The mystery elements are so-so and not too surprising. All told, this might be a nice afternoon beach read, with occasional nodding-offs.

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Standard, but enjoyable, murder mystery

This was the second in a mystery series by Linda Greenlaw, a Maine female fisherman turned author who was featured in the novel, "The Perfect Storm." I've also read her "Hungry Ocean" and "The Lobster Chronicles."

Evidently in the first novel the heroine, Jane Bunker, moved from Miami, where she was chief detective on the Miami-Dade County police force to be an insurance inspector in a quiet town in coastal Maine. In this novel she stumbles across an empty boat and later finds a dead body. It's a fairly standard mystery novel with some fun Maine color. I enjoyed it but it didn't stand out particularly.

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