Beachcomber

Rating:
Summary: Good, but--------
Review: This was a great story. Lots of humour. Luke scrambling to keep his cover secure & only digging himself deeper was great! Enter Marvin, the feline "catnap" victim used by Luke to explain his sneaking around in the middle of the night. Marvin had no desire to be a house cat, especially Luke's house cat since he actively disliked Luke. Luke's partner/roomate Gary was a closet chef who no one would suspect to be an FBI agent.

Christy is appalled at the dumb mistakes she's made which led to her hiding out on a small island practically being a bag man for the mob. Which is sort of where my problems with this book start.

Every year we spend two weekends on the tip of Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks. We've also spent quite a bit of time on Ocracoke Island. As this is protected seashore, development is limited to Ocracoke Village which has a year round population of about 600. It would be kind of hard to hide the amount of Mafia involvement that's in this book. The village is intentionally kept quaint since that is one of the main tourist draws. There is certainly no wrecking yard on the island or anything in the way of gaudy.

At one point Christy was worried about her car being pushed off a cliff. Since the island sits at or below sea level, there aren't anything remotely resembling cliffs, (for that matter in much of any place south of New York) unless you count the sand dunes which are about ten feet high if a hurricane hasn't been through recently.

One scene had the lead characters discussing "walking forty miles" to get out of the National Forest. The island is 15 miles long and less that a mile wide. Forty miles would put you somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. There is also no National Forest since the major vegetation is sea oats.

You can't see the ocean from the bottom of the Ocracoke lighthouse since that's one of the few places there ARE trees. There's definitely no snack bar.

I like Karen Robards books and enjoyed this one. If I wasn't familiar with the area I would have given it a five. But the inaccuracies and obvious lack of research was too hard to overlook. It didn't help that we'd just returned from there when I read this book.

That said, this book is still a keeper and I'll look forward to Ms. Robard's next.

Rating:
Summary: Good, but--------
Review: This was a great story. Lots of humour. Luke scrambling to keep his cover secure & only digging himself deeper was great! Enter Marvin, the feline "catnap" victim used by Luke to explain his sneaking around in the middle of the night. Marvin had no desire to be a house cat, especially Luke's house cat since he actively disliked Luke. Luke's partner/roomate Gary was a closet chef who no one would suspect to be an FBI agent.

Christy is appalled at the dumb mistakes she's made which led to her hiding out on a small island practically being a bag man for the mob. Which is sort of where my problems with this book start.

Every year we spend two weekends on the tip of Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks. We've also spent quite a bit of time on Ocracoke Island. As this is protected seashore, development is limited to Ocracoke Village which has a year round population of about 600. It would be kind of hard to hide the amount of Mafia involvement that's in this book. The village is intentionally kept quaint since that is one of the main tourist draws. There is certainly no wrecking yard on the island or anything in the way of gaudy.

At one point Christy was worried about her car being pushed off a cliff. Since the island sits at or below sea level, there aren't anything remotely resembling cliffs, (for that matter in much of any place south of New York) unless you count the sand dunes which are about ten feet high if a hurricane hasn't been through recently.

One scene had the lead characters discussing "walking forty miles" to get out of the National Forest. The island is 15 miles long and less that a mile wide. Forty miles would put you somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. There is also no National Forest since the major vegetation is sea oats.

You can't see the ocean from the bottom of the Ocracoke lighthouse since that's one of the few places there ARE trees. There's definitely no snack bar.

I like Karen Robards books and enjoyed this one. If I wasn't familiar with the area I would have given it a five. But the inaccuracies and obvious lack of research was too hard to overlook. It didn't help that we'd just returned from there when I read this book.

That said, this book is still a keeper and I'll look forward to Ms. Robard's next.