Murder on C-Dock By Cynthia Riggs-Attebery

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As Cynthia Riggs, Cynthia Riggs-Attebery is the author of the popular Martha's Vineyard Mystery Series, featuring Victoria Trumbull, a 92-year-old amateur sleuth.

In Murder on C-Dock Cynthia draws on her experience living aboard a houseboat on the Washington, D.C., waterfront. When Commodore Dunn is murdered, there's no shortage of suspects: everyone on C-Dock had reason to wish him dead. Persie Lee Butler's sleuthing soon turns up a web of secrets that goes back 30 years — and puts her own life in danger.

Murder on C-Dock features a stunning cover by Martha's Vineyard artist Elizabeth R. Whelan, a sailor herself who knows her boats. Murder on C-Dock

One of the better reads from Cynthia Riggs - I loved the book, kept your interest throughout. Very little was predictable and the ending made it an unexpected surprise. The new heroine has qualities that Victoria Trumble doesn't have but you are quickly able to identify with the personality and see how the relationships interplay with each other. Peppered with jsut the right amount of references to Martha's Vineyard. A must read for any of the Cynthia Riggs fans out there. Murder on C-Dock Several weeks ago while visiting Martha's Vineyard, I met Cynthia Riggs-Attebery. I have enjoyed her mystery series set on Martha's Vineyard with Victoria Trumball, a 92 year-old poet/detective. Riggs-Attebery explained to me this first book in a new series was very dark. Let me know what you think, she said after I shamelessly had my picture taken with her holding the new and old books.

A motley group of characters live on houseboats, sailboats, and just-about-floating-boats on C-Dock on the Washington Channel leading to the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. Riggs-Attebery knows this life. She lived on a houseboat on the D.C. waterfront for twelve years and was a licensed captain leading tours on the Potomac. The reader soon learns the owners of the boats on C-Dock have histories to match their boats, most needing repair. One of the owners, Dojan Minnowfish, has been exiled from Martha's Vineyard, for his behavior back home; followers of the author's Victoria Trumball series will recognize this name. What the owners all have in common, however, is their dislike for Commodore Dunn.

The plot begins with a fatal fire on one of the boats and then slowly, deftly connects a number of people to the murder as a long history of life on the waterfront unfolds. The protagonist, Persie Lee Butler, a single mother, a lab technician, harbors a secret as do most of the residents; the secrets inevitably reveal more plot twists and murders. Darker, indeed, but an entirely different series, introducing an intriguing protagonist, taking the reader to another part of the country, way of life, and establishing another tightly knit community.
Murder on C-Dock Enjoyable cozy set in Washington, D.C. in a houseboat area. Murder on C-Dock