Sins of Betrayal

A day that starts with sailing instructor, Kellie Montgomery, being held at gunpoint by a delusional environmentalist ends with the news that her friend Pearl, a hardy--and wealthy--sventy-five-year-old seafarer, is missing.

Publishers Weekly called Valerie Wilcox's debut mystery, Sins of Silence, "distinctive and intriguing." Now her sleuthing sailing instructor returns in a thrilling new adventure . . . A run of bad weather means a slow season at Larstad's Marina in Seattle, home of Kellie Montgomery's Sound Sailing offices. But Mother Nataure isn't the only source of an ill wind. A day that starts with Kellie being held at gunpoint by a delusional environmentalist ends witht the news that her friend Pearl, a hardy--and wealthy--seventy-five-year-old seafarer, is missing. As Kellie prepares to do battle with an extremist group who wants live-aboards like herself ousted from their sailboat homes, she also takes on the task of finding her friend. Then, when Pearl's family doesn't seem to welcome her help, Kellie's suspicions--and life--is put to the test.

Valerie Wilcox is a graduate of the Writers' Fiction and Writers' Mystery and Suspense Fiction Programs at the University of Washington and is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Willamette Writers' Association. Much like her Montgomery protagonist, Wilcox is a lifelong boating enthusiast. She and her husband David were living aboard their sailboat when she began writing her sailing mystery series. She lives in Camas, Washington where she is currently working on the second mystery in her new Concierge series.