Book Review: Old Silver

Reviewed By: Woodstock - RAM

[3.5 stars]

Old Silver Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB
Carl Brookins
Class/Genre: Mystery
Series: Michael Tanner and Mary Whitney # 3
Top Publications 2005

In the early 20th century, a ship carrying commercial freight across Lake Superior is lost in a storm with no survivors and no recovery of her cargo.

Nearly 100 years later, a cataloguer at a Chicago historical library discovers some personal correspondence among commercial records and documents. Several hundred miles away, Michael Tanner and his wife Mary Whitney are enjoying a scuba diving vacation along the coast of Lake Superior. One afternoon Mary surfaces with a brass plate in her hands - clearly an artifact from one of the many Great Lakes shipwrecks. Before they leave the area, Michael and Mary leave the item with the National Park Service office in the area as required by Park Service rules, but Mary's curiosity is aroused and she begins to research the history of the ship named on the the brass plate.

In fairly short sequence, the cataloguer is found dead in her apartment, the brass plate disappears from the Park Service office, and the short term rental where Michael and Mary are staying in the Twin Cities is trashed and the results of Mary's research is stolen. When they return to Lake Superior to investigate the connections between these events, Michael is forced off the road and left for dead in a frightening encounter with a semi tractor trailer.

Carl Brookins weaves all these elements together in an intriguing mystery - and an atmospheric trip through some of the most interesting parts of the Great Lakes region. Wealthy families, long buried secrets, jealousies and ambitions provide the eventual solution.

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