Blue Heron Marsh: A Webb Sawyer Mystery by Douglas Quinn
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- Pub. Date: July 2007
- 268pp
- Sales Rank: 487,891
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: July 2007
- Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 268pp
- Sales Rank: 487,891
- ISBN-13: 9780595458226
- ISBN: 059545822X
Synopsis
Webb Sawyer has recently been released from a U. S. Army psychiatric hospital. Out of personal revenge, he'd killed a Serbian death squad leader.
When Clara Zemeniewski is arrested for the murder by hanging of her father, Willard Haynes, her friend Amanda Eure tracks down Webb and provides evidence that may exonerate Clara. But Webb's old friend and prosecutor, Randy Fearing, isn't interested. He already has the killer.
Webb and Amanda go on a search for more information to prove Clara is innocent. During their search Clara kills herself. The case appears to be over. Webb and Amanda have a falling out.
However, Webb isn't satisfied and continues the investigation. His search leads him to four other victims who died in a similar manner. All had attended a private boys school. Webb discovers that forty years earlier there was a black man hanged to death by seven white boys, all from the school. The murder was covered up and the boys were never charged.
The trail leads to the original victim's son. But all isn't as it appears. The concept of truth and justice is turned upside down. And when Webb does find out the truth, he is at a loss about what to do.
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Blue Heron Marsh: A Webb Sawyer Mysteryby Anonymous
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June 13, 2008: My reading has been very hit and miss lately and I was afraid of genre burnout. I was reading urban fantasy exclusively and decided to try something different. This book was recommended to me and I am glad it was. I have really enjoyed it and the characterization is superb. Webb Sawyer, the main character, has become a close personal friend of mine. I know the man inside out and like what I see. He has done a thing or two in this book that I wanted to thump him upside the head for but he's only human with human flaws. Or man flaws :)From grade school on, Webb has always stood up for the underdog. When he sees a victim, he does his best to help that person. Formerly an army investigator, he moves into his father's fishing shack on Blue Heron Marsh on the Outer Banks. A case comes along at a time in his life when he just wants to be left alone but there is a victim involved and he can no more ignore her than he could all the others he helped in the past. When I read a book with characterization this good, I always have to wonder how much of the author is in this character. Does he love fishing and eating fish like Webb does? Are the recipes he includes his own recipes? This is the third author I have read whose books take place on the Outer Banks. I have loved all of them. Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons are the other two. Somehow the location becomes a character in these books. I find myself wanting to go to the Outer Banks to see Webb and go fishing with him and eat one of his fish dinners. Mr. Quinn, you have done a wonderful job with this book. For those who want cover to cover action and something always has to be happening, skip this book. If you want to sit back with a glass of tea or a cup of coffee (or Webb's favorite brand of beer) and savor the atmosphere and get to know a nice man, I recommend this book.
Blue Heron Marsh: A Webb Sawyer Mysteryby Anonymous
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January 07, 2008: . Forty years ago a black man is lynched in North Carolina. Today, people who were connected to that murder through a boarding school, are dying. Douglas Quinn weaves the history into an excellent adventure. Quinn is a dynamic storyteller and keeps his readers riveted. Webb Sawyer, just out of an Army psychiatric hospital, craves a quiet, uneventful life. He lives in his his late father's fishing shack at Blue Heron Marsh where he knows the slow, easy life on the Outer Banks of North Carolina will heal his wounded psyche, which included killing the Serbian death squad leader. He basks in placid contentment, including a sultry romance with Nan, from the pub. Then Amanda Eure comes to him for help in finding the truth about a murder which had convicted her friend Clara. Amanda wants her exonerated fast and out of jail. Thus ends the peaceful life because Amanda is as strong willed as Webb, and 'No' is not in her vocabulary. Amanda is a fast mover, and soon she and Webb are involved professionally and personally investigating the murder. Webb travels throughout the state to find evidence, but before he clears Clara, she kills herself. Amanda let's go of the investigation at that point, but Webb believes that Clara is innocent, and he is not willing to let it go. In gathering the evidence, Webb found other murders, and they all link to the forty-year old lynching. The connections are obvious, but this book is filled with red herrings. The characters are rich, deep and believable. The story is engrossing. This is one of those rare 'I don't want to put it down!' books . . . but when you finish, you want another Webb Sawyer mystery, the ride that only Quinn can spin. To Dougles Quinn I say, 'What are you doing reading a review -- give me more Webb!' Completely 5 stars for the author and the book.
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