The Bitter End (Em Ridge Mystery Series Book 2), by Linda Hall
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The Bitter End (Em Ridge Mystery Series Book 2), by Linda Hall
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What can possibly go wrong in the Bermuda Triangle?
For the past two weeks, boat delivery Captain Em Ridge has been ferrying a well-known TV conspiracy-theorist around the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. She is tired of his tales of reptilian governments, middle-earth civilizations and of course, all his theories about the Bermuda Triangle. Em just wants to finish up this assignment, get paid, and head back to her home in Maine.
But a chance sighting finds them aboard a "ghost sailboat". The salon is set neatly for supper, wine in the glasses, pots on the stove, bread on the table and not a soul aboard. Worse, she knows this boat. When a black cat slinks noiselessly around her feet, Em’s alarm hikes up to horror. Has someone purposely set this boat out here? Is it a warning? To her? Finding this boat plunges Em into a decades old mystery that threatens not only her, but her entire family.
The Bitter End, is the second book in the highly acclaimed Em Ridge Mystery Series which began with Night Watch. The adventure continues for widowed boat captain, Em Ridge.
"The combination of fast-paced mystery and well-crafted sailing adventure is irresistible" Cruising World Magazine
Linda Hall is the award winning author of twenty-one mystery novels and numerous short stories. Most of her novels have something to do with the sea. When she’s not writing, Linda and husband Rik and Captain Hook, their much beloved black cat, enjoy sailing aboard their 34’ sailboat, aptly named Mystery.
The Bitter End (Em Ridge Mystery Series Book 2), by Linda Hall - Amazon Sales Rank: #240187 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-08
- Released on: 2015-11-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
The Bitter End (Em Ridge Mystery Series Book 2), by Linda Hall About the Author Linda Hall spent the early years of her writing career as a journalist and freelance writer. She also worked in the field of adult literacy and wrote curriculum materials for adults reading at basic reading levels. In 1990 Linda decided to do something she’d always dreamed of doing, she began working on her first novel. The book she wrote, The Josiah Files was published in 1992. Since that time she’s written twenty-one more mystery and suspense novels and many short stories and essays. Most of her novels have something to do with the sea. Linda grew up in New Jersey and her love of the ocean was born there. When she was a little girl Linda remembers sitting on the shore and watching the waves and contemplating what was beyond. She could do that for hours. Linda has roots in two countries. In 1971, she married a Canadian who loves the water just as much as she does. They moved to Canada and have lived there ever since. One of the things they enjoy is sailing. In the summer they basically move aboard their 34’ sailboat, aptly named - Mystery. Both Linda’s husband Rik and Linda have achieved the rank of Senior Navigator, the highest rank possible in CPS. The U.S. sister organization is the U.S.P.S. Linda’s Senior Navigator diploma hangs proudly on her office wall. What this all means is that she knows how to use a sextant and can ‘theoretically’ find her way home by looking at the stars. Rik and Linda have two grown children, seven grandchildren and one very spoiled cat.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Not a Single Dull Moment By Jim Davis Having read and enjoyed the first book in this series, I eagerly awaited the release of the next book and immediately purchased a copy upon its release. This second story in the series did not disappoint. I really like, Em Ridge, the main character. Em Ridge is a boat captain who comes across as authentic and believable.This mystery has plenty of twists and turns to delight even the most discerning mystery lover. The story begins in the Bermuda Triangle. After an abandoned sailboat is found, a mystery compounds upon another mystery, which begins to unfold about Em's uncle, a man Em adored, but apparently did not know as well as she previously thought in her younger years. When Em sets out to find out what happened to her missing uncle, she learns he and a female friend of Em's had a bit of a history neither had mentioned to her previously. What else was he hiding, a murder, stolen money?This story is fast paced and held my attention from the first paragraph until the last sentence. I read the story in one day, basically, because I could not put it down for long.I loved both books in this series, but The Bitter End was my favorite of the two stories. Probably because I felt like I already knew the main character from reading the first book. I am looking forward to reading more stories about this highly skilled and intelligent female boat captain, who is a survivor in the most dire circumstances.I highly recommend The Bitter End and now eagerly look forward to the third book in this series. An excellent writing style and compelling stories make for enjoyable reads. This author has moved up to the top tier level of my favorite authors.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Quietly gripping and better than #1... By Steve Moore Emmeline (Em) Ridge is a female boat delivery captain. In other words, she’ll follow rich people around the oceans and deliver their sailing yachts to them because they want to get from point A to B faster. In the first book in this series, she had just lost her husband but still managed to solve a mystery. Fate gives her another blow by involving her in a new mystery related to an uncle’s disappearance. Here we go again. Ready for a fun ride? Sailing we will go.Sequels are always suspect. First, there’s the question of whether the book can stand alone. This one does, and it does it very well. There’s enough back story to bring the reader quickly up-to-date. A few characters are the same—Em, of course, her cop friend, her old neighbors, and so forth, persons who are almost part of that Maine landscape, and the author does a good job of describing them anew without belaboring the point. A new protagonist, Em’s uncle Ferd (short for Ferdinand), is mostly absent except for back story, but he plays the important role of a potential victim. He’s also accused of murder, but maybe he’s really dead, and Em stubbornly pursues the case, even over the protests of her sage but conflicted cop friend.Like the first book in the series, the characters here are complex, so much so that many can be considered persons of interest as Em struggles to prove her uncle’s innocence and discover whether he’s still alive. Because this is written in first person, the reader shares all her doubts and suspicions and will experience directly the clues as they are found. The author throws in enough misdirects to satisfy any reader of mysteries, though, confusing Em as well. (I was able to guess most of the story before long, but maybe I have an unfair advantage—I write mysteries too.) This book is probably better than the first, so that failure of some sequels is also avoided. In fact, it’s a first-rate mystery with great plot, characters, and settings.The visit to the scene of the crime deep in the heart of Pennsylvania is a wee bit unusual. Em is most comfortable on a boat, while the people in the Pennsylvania town are mostly clueless about sailing. It’s almost like first contact between Terrans and ETs! (I’ve also experienced some of that in Pennsylvania, a microcosm of the U.S. with big cities Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and a lot of rural Americana in between.) Otherwise, most of the novel occurs on and around the ocean, from Bermuda to Maine. The meaning of the title is explained at the beginning of the novel—it’s a sailing term—but any lover of the sea and sailing will smile at Hall’s authentic portrayals of action on the water.I was expecting more about the Bermuda Triangle. It really plays a minor role, although it provides a bit of strangeness at the beginning of the novel. That’s where Ferd disappears, and Em finds his empty boat with only his cat Bear on board. I also thought her temporary employer, the reality star and her reason for being there, would play more of a role, but he doesn’t. Count these things as misdirects too, I guess. The first adds eeriness; the second a bit of comedy (the reality show is about conspiracy theories).Hall’s action scenes are good and add thrills to this mystery, which also has plenty of suspense. I would have spent more pages on the final confrontation with the killer, though. The earlier confrontation with his associate gets more attention. It seemed like the author was in a rush to finish. While many details aren’t learned until the end, reminding me of those old Agatha Christie tales where everyone gathers around and hears Miss Marple or Poirot explain what happened, the denouement doesn’t contain any cliffhangers. The next Em book will have to be a fresh story, always a good thing—I’m looking forward to it.The Christie remembrance is fitting for another reason. Besides the importance of family, there really aren’t earth-shaking themes here. And the real lesson is that events many years in your past, even ones unknown to you, can come back and haunt you. So there’s a lot of old classical mystery flavor in this novel. It also leaves you thinking: what stories about your old relatives are true? All of the genealogical databases in the world would have trouble answering that question, so Em’s confusion about memories of her uncle not matching those of others in her circle of family and friends are probably not rare even in the real world. In this book, that only adds to the intrigue.(The reviewer received a free .mobi file of this book in return for an honest review.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Mystery Worth Reading! By Joanie Anything can happen in the Bermuda Triangle. When Em, a boat captain, accepts a job with “Papa” for twelve days, transporting him all over the area in her boat for a documentary, they come upon an abandoned sailboat with a tear in its mast and no one on board. After finding a cat on board, alone, and then realizing it’s her uncle’s boat, Em begins a desperate search for her favorite uncle. The trouble was, no one else was looking for him. The other relatives and friends thought she was crazy and even her mom didn’t really believe that he was missing. Most of them thought he was just in debt and ran away, implying to Em that she didn’t really know her Uncle Ferd. But Em wouldn’t give up. While searching, Em’s uncle is accused of murder and of stealing thousands of dollars. Along the way of looking for Uncle Ferd, Em came across two old girlfriends, a gun-toting muscle man who wouldn’t quit following and shooting at her, a few people who the police said were dead, an abused young wife, and [something I’ll keep secret].I was literally stumped through the book until the end, and I can usually figure out a mystery puzzle fairly quickly. I loved trying to figure out the pieces of the puzzle as I read and tried to figure out the riddles. There was a lot of action too, without seeming too far-fetched. There were a few smiles and laughs too, like this one, after Em pushes a bad guys off her boat: “Can you swim?” I called to him over the wind. “No.” He came up sputtering. “Well,” I called, “good thing you’re wearing a life jacket then . . .”I liked that there was a hint of a “wanna be” romance: “I would need to be more careful in the future about where I placed my heart.” I could tell that the author loved being on the water and that made the story all the more credible.The author has a knack for creating characters that are likeable and characters who I can care about. I was really cheering Em on and I felt like I really got to know Uncle Ferd how Em saw him. The Bitter End was a very entertaining story.“Ahead of us, the sun sparkled on the water like scattered sequins.”
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