–thanks to Gayle Wigglesworth’s CRUISIN’ FOR A BRUISIN’–I’ve just returned from a wonderful “Call of the Sea” Cruise.
The travel brochure fastened in the front of this wonderfully manufactured book told me I’d board in San Francisco on a Saturday, spend Sunday at sea, then begin my sight-seeing in Victoria. B.C. on Monday. That’s the only place on the cruise, other than SF, that I’d seen before, and so I do know it was accurately described in Gayle’s book. That gave me trust in the other descriptions. I learned and felt what the ship was like, what the many amenities were, and even got to enjoy the fabulous meals vicariously. Each stop in Alaska was described in enough to detail to place me there, as were the sights (whales, porpoises, glaciers, etc.) seen while out in the ocean.
Did I tell you this is the fourth book in Gayle’s Claire Gulliver mystery series? Not that I forgot I was reading a mystery novel, but I definitely got two for the price of one. I’ve had my Alaskan cruise and a wonderfully complex mystery to follow as well. The characters–Claire, her mother, friends, and the passengers (WHICH ones are evil? And, are there degrees of evil here?)–are all wonderfully drawn.
I had a fabulous time. Thank you Gayle Wigglesworth for writing what seemed created “just for me” but offers the same good time and suspense to everyone else.
Y’all enjoy.
Radine Trees Nehring
http://www.RadinesBooks.com
Exploring the Ozarks one crime at a time
2 Replies
Thanks for checking me out. Maybe you’ll try one of my books or tell a friend about them. Have a good day.