Mystery of the Mermaid
Merla Zellerbach, . . Firefall, $27.50 (206pp) ISBN 978-0-915090-74-7
Fans of old-fashioned romantic mysteries will welcome Zellerbach's lighthearted puzzler set mainly aboard a Norwegian luxury liner on a 42-day South American cruise. The paths of 32-year-old San Francisco native Hallie Marsh, a PR whiz and breast cancer survivor, and Dan “Cas” Casserly, a magazine journalist who's one of the ship's lecturers, collide in an adventure that includes a missing passenger who may be a murder victim, a weird parapsychologist and a French divorcée. Despite Hallie's initial fears that her double mastectomy will doom any romance between her and the magnetic Cas, Zellerbach (
Reviewed on: 10/26/2009
Genre: Fiction