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SWIMMING WITH THE DEAD
by Kathy Brandt
Signet, October 2003
272 pages
$5.99
ISBN: 0451210204


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In Denver, the office of the Police Commissioner is broken into, his secretary is killed, and his storeroom is rifled. His son Michael, an underwater researcher and expert diver, had died a few weeks earlier in an accident in an abandoned refrigerator ship sunk off the coast of the British Virgin Islands. Michael's belongings have been rifled and some of his research journals are missing.

The Commissioner asks Hannah Sampson, the head of the Denver dive squad, to go to the BVI and investigate, since Michael was known to have been a very careful diver, who was passionately involved in researching damage to the underwater environment caused by human interference. He was also engaged to a beautiful, wealthy, highly-educated BVI woman. But he was found inside a refrigeration tank under a piece of machinery that had apparently fallen on him, pinning him to the floor until his air ran out.

Hannah reluctantly goes to the Caribbean. She has never dived in the tropics, nor has she ever dived for recreation. The BVI changes her. She investigates, gradually winning over the local police chief to her views.

I am not a water person. I get seasick standing on a dock. I have never dived. I find the idea of visiting or living on a tropical island very boring. I thought this book would be the same. Au contraire, I found it well written, interesting, with a good mystery and good characters. I will visit this tropical island again, at least in the company of Hannah Sampson.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2003

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