Death Rides the Ferry by Patricia Skalka

With the lives of those he holds most dear in peril, the sheriff pursues a ruthless killer into the stormy northern reaches of Lake Michigan. Order a Death Rides the Ferry: (A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery) today from WHSmith.

Longtime residents recall with dismay the disastrous festival decades earlier, when another woman died and a valuable sixteenth-century instrument - the fabled yellow viol - vanished, never to be found.Ĭubiak follows a trail of murder, kidnapping, and false identity that leads back to the calamitous night of the twin tragedies. Skalka was awarded the Edna Ferber Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for Death in Cold Water. A gripping novel sure to entertain young readers and give their grandparents a trip down memory lane. The jubilant mood sours when an unidentified passenger is found dead on a ferry. Patricia Skalka is an American author best known for the Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries series. Patricia Skalka, author of Death Rides the Ferry. Sheriff Dave Cubiak enjoys a rare day off as tourists and a documentary film crew hover around the musicians. Paperback By: Patricia Skalka On picturesque Washington Island, a summer music festival turns to discord when a stolen viola de gamba is linked to murder.

After a forty-year absence, the Viola da Gamba Music Festival has returned to the picturesque isle on the tip of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula. It's a sparkling August day on Washington Island and the resonant notes of early classical music float on the breeze toward the sailboats and ferries that ply the waters of Death's Door strait.

Death Rides the Ferry by Patricia Skalka