Review: Dark Water Dive

Hannah Sampson is back in the British Virgin Islands. This time she is moving there, at least for awhile. Chief Dunn has offered her a job. She also wants more time to see how things develop with Peter O’Brien.

The town is being plagued with robberies. The police commissioner is riding Chief Dunn pretty hard to get that solved. Hannah wants to help, but then a tourist is reported missing by his wife. They had chartered one of Peter’s boats, he owns a charter company. Hannah doesn’t want to work on a missing person case, but Chief Dunn insists. She is pared up with Snyder, a very young detective who likes to drive the boats at top speed. At first Hannah feels the husband just didn’t go home to the boat one night and will show up anytime. Then he is found murdered in the water. She begins interviewing all the couples on the boats they spent time with. They had all attended a party on a neighboring boat the night he disappeared. She is sure some of them aren’t telling her the truth, but how does she figure who is lying and get them to tell the truth?

She also gets her ex-partner in Denver to do some digging into the victim’s past. It appears squeaky clean. She wonders if his marriage was really that smooth.

Plus Hannah isn’t getting along very well with the other detectives on the force. They aren’t too happy about working with a woman, and a foreigner at that. Are they trying to sabotage her first case?

Then Hannah begins to see some value in being pared with Snyder. She continues investigating and observing the various couples involved. She feels one of them will lead her to the killer. Can she stay out of harms way in the process?

Hannah is a great character. I love this series. It is so different. Even though I don’t dive, I found it very interesting. It is such a well written book that you don’t feel like she’s giving you diving lessons throughout the books. So many authors try to teach how to do something within their book. She gave great tips throughout, but I found the mystery to be the most important part of the book. A refreshing change. The romance that is heating up between Hannah and Peter is terrific, too.

I highly recommend this book and the first one in this series – Swimming With The Dead.

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Book Review: Dark Water Dive