Surface Tension

When Seychelle Sullivan, Captain of the salvage boat Gorda, steps aboard the Top Ten, a multi-million dollar yacht in response to a distress call she finds no one alive aboard. There is a body, the body of the young woman who had placed the distress call. There is a gun. But there is no sign of the Captain, Neal Garrett. Saychelle prevents the yacht from grounding and tows it to the coast guard station. She knows she is entitled to a sizable salvage fee. When she receives a small offering of $15K rather than the $25-30K she feels she earned, she is insulted and refuses to accept the money. This refusal leads to death and evil.

Suspenseful read. Believable characters and plot.

Seychelles is relentless and quite clueless. Her story goes from one dumb act to ones that are terminally stupid. Clearly, the author watched too many episodes of Miami Vice while she wrote this novel.

I was going to give this a 3-star rating; but it's not worth it. The main character is TSTL for most of the book. The cop is stereotyped as a thuggish bulldog with blinders on. I kept getting this weird feeling that I should be watching an ugly mash-up of Miami Vice and CSI: Miami.

great storyline and enough twists, turns and surprises to keep you guessing