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Dead Astern, Windjammer Mystery Series #5

Dead Astern
Windjammer Mystery Series: Book 5
(2017)

A Gripping Sea Adventure Set on the Gulf of Maine

Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont returns in a riveting psychological thriller featuring a cast of dark and troubled characters. 

Something feels amiss about the group of seven friends who charter Maine Wind for a late season cruise that turns deadly when one of them is lost overboard. While making for homeport, Brie investigates a case that becomes more enigmatic at every turn. Dead Astern, Windjammer Mystery Series #5 (Kindle)As she drills down through layers of hatred, mistrust, and deception, old crimes come to light, and tensions ratchet up with each passing hour. When a storm looms at sea, the closed environment of the ship weighs heavy on them all as death stalks this ill-fated cruise.

 


“The author knows about the sea.”

—Mary Ann Grossmann
St. Paul Pioneer Press

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“A great, bounding thrill ride. Dead Astern is the book Agatha Christie might have written if she’d loved the sea and had known how to trim a sail. Jenifer LeClair offers readers an engaging tale that is a strong, seagoing version of the locked-room mystery. With several well-plotted twists, lots of riveting scenes on the bounding main, and plenty of fascinating sailing information along the way, Dead Astern is an exciting excursion sure to please anyone willing to sign on for the voyage.”

—William Kent Krueger
NY Times Bestselling Author

 

“An ill-fated voyage aboard the schooner Maine Wind is the set-up for what becomes a great locked-room mystery. When seven men charter the schooner late in the sailing season, the cruise becomes deadly when one of the men mysteriously is lost at sea. It is up to Brie Beaumont second officer and also an officer with the Maine State Police to solve the mystery. Added to the adventure is one of those late season storms the Gulf of Maine is famous for.

“As someone who has sailed in the same waters I can testify that Jenifer LeClair knows more than a thing or two about sailing. There is a strong element of verisimilitude in her description of sailing and the sea. LeClair has written a hell of a great mystery that will keep the reader guessing until the end.

—Gary R. Bush
Author of Sail Into Treachery