Snipe Hunt The Professor Simon Shaw Murder Mysteries Sarah Shaber Books
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Simon Shaw travels to Pearlie Beach, North Carolina to spend Thanksgiving vacation with his friends, David Morgan, an archeologist, Marcus and Marianne Clegg and their three younger children, and his former crush Julia McGloughlin, a police attorney. Simon is expecting to spend Thanksgiving vacation working and preparing for the finals week that's ahead, but is talked into solving another mystery of the past. Simon, Morgan, and Julia try to find the missing links between a diver's suit that is dredged from the water, a dark family secret, and confederate gold. Reviews “Sarah Shaber ‘s obvious strengths as a writer are clearly demonstrated in Snipe Hunt. The plot is unique and her knowledge of North Carolina history extensive. Not only does she manage to weave details of North Carolina’s participation in the Civil War into her story, but also the state’s importance in World War II plays an active role. The method by which Ms. Shaber ties the events of the two wars to the present day is really quite clever. The author ably demonstrates her wry sense of humor. One statement in particular, seems to merit quoting. Simon is speculating on possible situations that fit the facts they have pertaining to the case, saying, “I’m a scholar. I can make facts fit any scenario I want.” -Andy Plonka “An appealing cozy, which pleasingly mixes regional history and lore, a bit of romance and a soupcon of suspense.” -Publishers Weekly An Alternate Selection of the Mystery Guild
Snipe Hunt The Professor Simon Shaw Murder Mysteries Sarah Shaber Books
Time and place: Thanksgiving week, present time; Pearlie Beach, a small island on the North Carolina coast.Logline: A college historian and a state archaeologist discover Confederate gold coins while looking into the murder of a Navy frogman during World War II.
Protagonist: Professor Simon Shaw seeks peace and quiet after the firestorm of celebrity he endured when he solved a 70-year-old murder. Simon is “drawn to old people like a moth to a flame. He chose twentieth-century American history as his specialty mostly so he could talk to its witnesses.”
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“I'm not looking at the body,” Simon said.
“You don't have to,” Morgan said. “Besides, we don't know if it is a body.”
Simon and his friend David Morgan are on Pearlie Beach when debris scooped up by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge turns up a barnacle-covered object about the size and shape of a corpse. Morgan uses his archaeologist’s tools to chip away at the barnacles until he’s sure the strange looking object is a human body.
Simon eyeballs the corpse’s old rubber diving suit, weighted shoes and rubber bucket fastened to the waist, and identifies it a "rebreather,” a dangerous suit used by frogmen in World War II. It circulated pure oxygen through a closed system inside the diver's suit but if he went below 35 feet, water pressure forced too much pure oxygen into the bloodstream. Nasty results include drowning. Simon says, “That's why Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung.”
Pearlie Beach seems largely inhabited by the Pearlie family and news of the discovery travels with the speed of light. Dale Pearlie, the mayor for life, is sure the corpse is his cousin, Carl Chavis, a Navy frogman who was stationed in Wilmington and vanished in 1942. Simon vows not to get involved but a tearful plea from Carl's elderly Aunt Inez reels him in.
Meantime, Morgan has gained possession of the rubber bucket. The contents include 12 gold coins from Georgia’s Dahlonega Mint, a federal mint captured by Confederate soldiers in 1861. The Confederate coins are so rare they’re worth from $2,000 to $14,000 each. Overnight, some of the islanders are sneaking out in boats to look for sunken treasure while others are trying to cover up the murder of Carl Chavis and committing a new murder in the process.
There’s a lot going on in this book, including some mouth-watering cooking scenes, a question about ownership of the gold coins and, yes, a snipe hunt. I am now addicted to the Simon Shaw E-books despite numerous formatting glitches. Fortunately there are at least three more in the series still to read.
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Snipe Hunt The Professor Simon Shaw Murder Mysteries Sarah Shaber Books Reviews
This is the second novel in Ms. Shaber's Professor Simon Shaw series, and I enjoyed this book even more than I enjoyed the first. Her characters come to life because they are normal people in normal locations or normal circumstances unexpectedly caught up in a mystery/mysteries. (Usually an old mystery and a current mystery.) The intelligent, funny characters use history, research, gossip, friendships, and common sense to solve the mystery. If I ever find myself in a similar situation, that is how I'd handle solving the mystery! And there's not such a plethora of characters that you need a wall chart to keep track. Also, the mystery is the central story, and NOT the sexual tension or exploits of the characters. Ms. Shaber's writing style strongly reminds me of the style used by Agatha Christie in her timeless Miss Marple series. I've already purchased the next book in the Simon Shaw series.
There are still a few adjustments can make to its robot's delivery (male-have not heard female) without any expense one is most obvious, simply program all titles to be read as such, that is, now 'Mr,' comes out 'M' 'R' rather than Mister. Don't know how they can do anything to prevent differential pronunciations of same spelling, now wound comes out wownd when context calls for woond. These things one gets accustomed to;I find the reading satisfactory, though not up to the fine voice-actors one usually gets on an audiobook--for a great deal more money.
This novel precedes some of the others I have read, so I will avoid details which become central in the later ones. Here the bright, nice guy, Professor Shaw, is vacationing with his archaeologist buddy, staying at the shore with one of his teaching colleagues and his family, A body of a man missing for 50 years is found under water in a diving suit...with confederate gold coins in his pocket worth tens of thousands of dollars. Where did they come from? Are there more? Why did he die? These are some of the questions which keep the intensely snoopy Professor keyed up. With his usual innocence he not only digs out facts some would rather remain hidden but subjects himself and those around him to risks they might otherwise have avoided.
Plot is good. Lead characters appealing. Writing sound. Despite some perplexing behavior by Our Hero (who never sees danger when his nose for finding out other people's business is twitching), this is good, light reading. Those following the series will surely want to read it, others should find it entertaining if not quite first rate.
I love the natural pacing of this mystery series. There is no artificial do-or-die TV adrenalin-pumping peril on a regularly scheduled basis, one mark of the potboiler. The main characters all seem like "real people" in the sense of people who react to situations in reasonable ways that advance the carefully drawn mystery plot. The main protagonist is an interesting mix of sometimes conflicting cultural influences - Jewish on one side, lapased fundamentalist Christian on the other, shotgun-shootin' mountain people and a university professor father... he handles the built-in cultural inconsistencies with remarkable grace and intelligence. It's fun to watch how Shaber makes this character's puzzle pieces fit together. All in all, this is one of the best "cold case" mystery series I've seen - plus, just thinking of the hero as a forensic historian makes me smile. TV, it's not. These books are not for action junkies. Those who enjoy seeing a good writer build upon extensive research and knowledge of a region (the South, at an educated level where not everyone is straight out of "Deliverance") with non-frantic, lifelike pacing and believable characters will consider this series a find.
Time and place Thanksgiving week, present time; Pearlie Beach, a small island on the North Carolina coast.
Logline A college historian and a state archaeologist discover Confederate gold coins while looking into the murder of a Navy frogman during World War II.
Protagonist Professor Simon Shaw seeks peace and quiet after the firestorm of celebrity he endured when he solved a 70-year-old murder. Simon is “drawn to old people like a moth to a flame. He chose twentieth-century American history as his specialty mostly so he could talk to its witnesses.”
Opening lines
“I'm not looking at the body,” Simon said.
“You don't have to,” Morgan said. “Besides, we don't know if it is a body.”
Simon and his friend David Morgan are on Pearlie Beach when debris scooped up by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge turns up a barnacle-covered object about the size and shape of a corpse. Morgan uses his archaeologist’s tools to chip away at the barnacles until he’s sure the strange looking object is a human body.
Simon eyeballs the corpse’s old rubber diving suit, weighted shoes and rubber bucket fastened to the waist, and identifies it a "rebreather,” a dangerous suit used by frogmen in World War II. It circulated pure oxygen through a closed system inside the diver's suit but if he went below 35 feet, water pressure forced too much pure oxygen into the bloodstream. Nasty results include drowning. Simon says, “That's why Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung.”
Pearlie Beach seems largely inhabited by the Pearlie family and news of the discovery travels with the speed of light. Dale Pearlie, the mayor for life, is sure the corpse is his cousin, Carl Chavis, a Navy frogman who was stationed in Wilmington and vanished in 1942. Simon vows not to get involved but a tearful plea from Carl's elderly Aunt Inez reels him in.
Meantime, Morgan has gained possession of the rubber bucket. The contents include 12 gold coins from Georgia’s Dahlonega Mint, a federal mint captured by Confederate soldiers in 1861. The Confederate coins are so rare they’re worth from $2,000 to $14,000 each. Overnight, some of the islanders are sneaking out in boats to look for sunken treasure while others are trying to cover up the murder of Carl Chavis and committing a new murder in the process.
There’s a lot going on in this book, including some mouth-watering cooking scenes, a question about ownership of the gold coins and, yes, a snipe hunt. I am now addicted to the Simon Shaw E-books despite numerous formatting glitches. Fortunately there are at least three more in the series still to read.
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