{What's On Your Kindle?} Mike Martin on Dangerous Waters

 

Old habits die hard…

Sgt. Windflower tries his best to ease away from life as a Mountie, but the lure of an investigation is too hard to resist.

After a missing man turns up dead, Sgt. Windflower is pulled in to investigate. Meanwhile, the arrival of a group of unique foreign visitors during a snowstorm in Grand Bank offers up another mystery. Even with so much going on, Windflower can’t resist the enticement of a good meal and a trip to the island of Saint Pierre off the coast of Newfoundland.

But when things get rough, Windflower can always rely on Eddie Tizzard and the gang to have his back.

As always, Windflower’s wife Sheila and their daughters are beacons of love and support as he navigates dangerous waters.

Grand Bank beckons you to another great story in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series.

Book Information

Release Date: April 30, 2022

Publisher:  Ottawa Press and Publishing

Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1988437828; 288 pages; $16.95; eBook $4.99: FREE Kindle Unlimited

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3RczNNA 

Mike Martin was born in St. John’s, NL on the east coast of Canada and now lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a long-time freelance writer and his articles and essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and online across Canada as well as in the United States and New Zealand.

He is the author of the award-winning Sgt. Windflower Mystery series set in beautiful Grand Bank. There are now 12 books in this light mystery series with the publication of Dangerous Waters. A Tangled Web was shortlisted in 2017 for the best light mystery of the year, and Darkest Before the Dawn won the 2019 Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award. Mike has also published Christmas in Newfoundland: Memories and Mysteries, a Sgt. Windflower Book of Christmas past and present.

Some Sgt. Windflower Mysteries are now available as audiobooks and the latest A Long Ways from Home was released as an audiobook in 2022. All audiobooks are available from Audible in Canada and around the world.

Mike is Past Chair of the Board of Crime Writers of Canada, a national organization promoting Canadian crime and mystery writers and a member of the Newfoundland Writers’ Guild and Ottawa Independent Writers and Capital Crime Writers.

His latest book is the mystery, Dangerous Waters.

You can visit his website at https://SgtWindflowerMysteries.com/  or connect with him on Twitter and Facebook.

 

 

 Welcome, Mike! Your Book, Dangerous Waters, sounds absolutely awesome. Can you tell us the story behind that intriguing title?

Dangerous Waters is set in Grand Bank, Newfoundland on the easternmost tip of Canada. It is a fishing village on the Atlantic Ocean and while many days the waters are calm and quiet, a storm can blow in at any time. Then, those smooth ocean waters become deadly dangerous. In the story, Dangerous Waters, Sgt. Windflower and his friends must navigate some stormy seas on the water and on land in order to solve some serious crimes and restore the peace and quiet of this sleepy little community.

 Can you tell us more about your main characters?

The main characters are Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Canadian Mountie, who is in the process of changing careers, or at least thinking about it. His main sidekick is Corporal Eddie Tizzard, a local boy who also joined the Mounties. And of course, Windflower's family. His wife, Sheila Hillier who used to be the Mayor of Grand Bank, two daughters Amelia Louise and Stella, and Lady the collie and Molly, the cat.

What part was the most exciting to write about?

I always joke that The End is the best part of a book for an author. But I actually enjoy all of it. Maybe that's because I don't have a plot or an outline. So I have to finish the book so that I know how it will end. Writing is an act of creation and when I am writing it is like I am in another world. I love that feeling so I keep writing.

Where does this story take place and why did you choose that location?

Somehow, before I’d even written the first Sgt. Windflower Mystery, I knew that the story would be set in Newfoundland, where I was born. I had no idea what kind of book it would be and certainly no clues about characters or plot development. But I knew that even though I hadn’t lived there for twenty-five years, I wanted to have the story set in Newfoundland.

If you’ve ever visited there, you know the appeal of Canada’s newest province. It is relatively small, lightly populated and very friendly. I thought that my book (I didn’t know it would be a series) would be set in St. John’s, the capital city. That’s my hometown and a place I know well. But while Sgt. Windflower does visit St. John’s occasionally, almost all of the series is set in the small community of Grand Bank on the southeast coast of the island.

What's next for you?

I am happily promoting Dangerous Waters and having tons of fun doing that. I have a new Sgt. Windflower book getting ready for editing and I am releasing a new book of Christmas stories in October, just in time for Christmas. Watch out for Memories and Mysteries 2: Christmas in Newfoundland.

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