A Mysterious Review of North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo.
Review summary: There is a lot to like about this suspense thriller. The storyline is a strong one and there are several elements that one suspects may be the key to the solution to the mystery, and yet it isn't clear which are important and which are incidental. A significant drawback: it's written in first-person present, which does the story no favors. (Click here for text of full review.)
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North of Boston
Elisabeth Elo
Viking (January 2014)
Publisher synopsis: When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat's owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky.
Compelled to look after Noah, the son of the late Ned and her alcoholic prep school friend, Thomasina, Pirio can't shake the lurking suspicion that the boat's sinking — and Ned's death — was no accident. It's a suspicion seconded by her deeply cynical, autocratic Russian father, who tells her that nothing is ever what it seems. Then the navy reaches out to her to participate in research on human survival in dangerously cold temperatures.
With the help of a curious journalist named Russell Parnell, Pirio begins unraveling a lethal plot involving the glacial whaling grounds off Baffin Island. In a narrow inlet in the arctic tundra, Pirio confronts her ultimate challenge: to trust herself.
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