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PLOVER ISLAND BREAKDOWN
By Joel Brown
Latest Libertyport Mystery Featuring Baxter McLean
Baxter spends the winter on Plover Island. Murder isn’t part of his plans.
The washed-up singer-songwriter has temporarily relocated to Plover Island, where snowy owls soar and solitude encourages contemplation. But long walks on the beach aren’t going to revive his foundering music career or fill his depleted bank account. Then a mystery from his youth leads him to a group of islanders turning to crime to survive the Great Recession. What’s a moderately depressive singer-songwriter to do?
Plover Island Breakdown is the fourth Libertyport Mystery, following Mirror Ball Man, Mermaid Blues and Revolution Rock. Baxter is a one-hit-wonder from the 1980s who keeps sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong – including into murder. The series takes a satirical but affectionate look at life in a town where townies, artists and yuppies coexist – but not always peacefully – and the tourists just keep coming.
“One hell of a writer.” Dennis Metrano, Newburyport Today
Joel Brown is a staff writer for Boston University and a longtime Boston Globe correspondent. Besides the Libertyport Mysteries, he is the author of The Essex Coastal Byway Guide. A Massachusetts native and lifelong Red Sox fan, he lives in Newburyport.
Available now. Trade paperback, 250pp., $14.95. Also on Kindle.
ISBN 978-1542978095
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