Death by the Bay wouldn’t be a traditional Skalka mystery, though, if it didn’t include an unexpected twist or two.” “Rife with memorable scenes in such unexpected places. A former staff writer at Reader’s Digest, she presents writing workshops throughout the United States. She is president of the Chicagoland chapter of Sisters in Crime and divides her time between Chicago and Door County, Wisconsin. Patricia Skalka is the author of Death Stalks Door County, Death at Gills Rock, Death in Cold Water, and Death Rides the Ferry, the first four books in the popular Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery series. Dedicated and new fans alike will find themselves captivated by this intelligently plotted story as Cubiak untangles the twisted threads of this intricate mystery. The resourceful sheriff must rely on his skills and wits, along with the advice and memories of friends and family, to uncover the dark truth behind the Institute for Progressive Medicine. Past and present merge as long-buried secrets rise to the surface. Then suddenly another scream pierces the air. Some evade questions while others offer contradictory statements. As Cubiak interrogates the witnesses, he’s struck by the inconsistencies in their stories. Leaping into action, he finds the ninety-three-year-old director of the prestigious Institute for Progressive Medicine collapsed on the floor, dead of a suspected heart attack. On a chilly Monday in late spring, Sheriff Dave Cubiak is at the Green Arbor Lodge for lunch when a scream from a nearby medical conference disrupts the scene.
Maureen Jennings, author of the Murdoch Mysteries All the characters spring off the pages.” Sheriff Cubiak is the kind of man you would always want to handle such personal and painful matters. Her many credits include: Staff Writer for Reader’s Digest, freelancer, ghost writer, writing instructor and book reviewer.The fifth book in the Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery Series Skalka, a Chicago writer, turned to fiction following a successful career in nonfiction. Skalka write with unusually rich detail about her story’s setting and with unflinching empathy for her characters. He eventually arrives at a solution that may not be legally proper but serves justice. Now the sheriff of Door County, which occupies the peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Cubiak is bothered by inconsistent details at the scene where three prominent locals, heroes from WWII, have died in an apparent accident in isolated Gills Rock, “a blip of a town at the tip of the peninsula.” Cubiak studies the people involved more than the physical evidence, peeling back decades of deception by the dead men their “heroism” may have hidden a wartime murder, and they have injured many people since then. Angst-laden former Chicago homicide detective Dave Cubiak uncovers long-buried secrets in this sequel to 2014’s Death Stalks Door County.
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