Shadows on a Morning in Maine
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Publisher Description
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer's making big changes in her life. She's taken a sabbatical from her college teaching job and moved to the coast of Maine to run an antique mall with Will Brewer, her significant other, and is finally hoping to adopt the daughter she's been hoping for. However, the troubled girl referred to her doesn't want any part of the plan, showing affection only for harbor seals, which remind her of her "real mother." Maggie's distraught when someone starts shooting the seals -- and the a young fisherman is murdered. When Will then confesses a secret from his past, she begins to wonder if moving to Maine is the biggest mistake of her life.
Publisher's Weekly: "Wait paints a vivid picture of life in coastal Maine ... (and) tackles the topic of adoption with empathy and nuance."
Barbara Ross (author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries): "Shadows on a Morning in Maine kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end."
Edith Maxwell (author of Delivering the Truth): "Author Wait frames this multi-layer story as expertly as Maggie frames prints - you won't want to stop reading!"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wait's middling eighth Antique Print mystery (after 2014's Shadows on a Maine Christmas) finds professor and antique-print dealer Maggie Summer in Waymouth, Maine, where she's opening an antiques mall with boyfriend Will Brewer. Maggie's also in the midst of adopting nine-year-old Brooklin Deschaine, but that process is nearly derailed when the little girl stumbles across a slain seal during a visit. The seal is the third to have been shot in nine days, and the Marine Patrol remains clueless regarding the culprit. After a local fisherman becomes the shooter's next victim, Maggie launches her own investigation, determined to restore order and safety to Waymouth before Brooklin returns. Wait tackles the topic of adoption with empathy and nuance, but this story line, coupled with Maggie and Will's conflict-riddled renovation of the antiques mall, eclipses the book's central mystery, which is introduced so late it's practically an afterthought. Wait paints a vivid picture of life in coastal Maine, but readers in search of a fair-play mystery may be left wanting.
