My Thoughts and Book Review
In the novel, The Raven's Cry, Kate Zoe Thomas leaves her job at WGBH and moves from Boston as a station manager to Wynter Island, British Columbia where she stays at Michael and Anna's rental cottage by Steeltun Bay. Soon she gets acquainted with the long-time residents of Wynter Island - Gwen and Vera Schmidt. Kate had broken up with her boyfriend, Daniel Apolinar before coming to the Island. She had met Daniel in Afghanistan while working as a producer for PBS Dispatches and he was a reporter based in Kabul. Then, Kate drives from her home legion heading down, and to her horror and grief she finds at the same time recognizes Daniel's deceased body floating in the ocean,
Tension and intrigue build up for the reader as it is difficult to determine if David's death is a coincidence? Why did this healthy man fly two thousand miles to an isolated Island off the Columbia Coast and winds up dead? And also the place where Kate moved to. Kate turns out to be the main suspect as she found him dead. As the coroner makes sure it wasn't suicide or an accident. For the police investigating officer, Kate becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. What was Daniel doing on Wynter Island?
I think this novel has twists at the end when Kate becomes free from accusations of being a suspect. There appear to be too many suspects among the residents of Wynter Island. Nate and Gwen become one of the suspects. Kate sets out to investigate Daniel's murderer. Who killed Daniel? All Kate could feel is exhaustion and grieving Daniel's loss. It is a nail-biting situation till the end. Why would someone on Wynter Island have a reason to murder Daniel. As lots of questions emerge the novel becomes very suspenseful and not anymore cozy.
Thank you Netgalley and Level Best Books Publishers for an advance copy for my honest review.
Book Description
TV producer Kate Zoë Thomas, fleeing an abduction in Afghanistan and heartbreak in Boston, accepts the first job that gives her a fresh start: station manager at a tiny community channel on Wynter Island in the Canadian Gulf Islands.
But, try as she may, Kate cannot outrun her bad luck. On a moonlit walk to a local beach, Kate spots a body bobbing in the surf. In shock, she recognizes the lifeless face and realizes there is only one person on the island with a motive for his murder.
Herself.
Will she manage to solve the mystery before the murderer stops her?
- Publisher : Level Best Books (March 14, 2023)
- Publication date : March 14, 2023
- Language : English
- Print length : 296 pages
AUTHOR BIO
KIM HERDMAN SHAPIRO
Kim worked as a journalist in Canada for many years, with experience in both print and broadcast journalism. Her book, Gelato with the Pope, highlights her time as a syndicated travel columnist in the Nineties.
In addition to her syndicated travel column, she has written feature articles for various publications, edited a monthly children's publication in British Columbia, and had her poetry published in A Canadian Anthology of Children's Poetry. She won a Microsoft web design award for Footloose, one of the first digital e-zines on the internet.
For the past eight years she has been working on her video project, What the Hell is a Toque? This chronicles her travels with her sons from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and up to the Canadian Arctic.
Kim is also a board member of Sisters in Crime New England.
She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, two sons, three dogs, and a cat who thinks he is a dog.
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