The Houseboat Detective

A good detective has an analytic mind, loves to solve puzzles, is driven to know the answers – oh, and he might play piano.Twenty-something Jake Sommers lives in a houseboat moored at Fisherman’s Wharf, a picturesque set of docks bordering the Inner Harbour of Victoria, BC. Jake inherited his craft, the Honeysuckle Rose, from his late Great-aunt Dierdre, once a successful artist and sixties flower child. Jake’s a bit of a lost soul, who plays piano in a bar, loves the jazz music of the 1920s and ’30s, and has a tendency to drink too much.When a beautiful woman shows up at his floating home mistakenly believing Jake is a qualified and experienced private investigator, and begging to hire him for a case, the little voice in Jake’s head tells him he should turn down the offer.Too bad he never listens to his little voice.He expects his ‘investigation’ to be a straightforward search for a young woman on the Internet. But both his client and her case turn out to be far more than he bargained for, and he’s unwittingly plunged into a convoluted world of DNA ancestry, danger, intrigue, and murder.What Readers Say About The Houseboat Detective: ★★★★★ ‘Enjoyable from start to finish. There was never a dull moment and lots of humor.’★★★★★ ‘One of the best mysteries I’ve read in months. The writing is so descriptive and the story line just keeps leading you deeper.’★★★★★ ‘Just enough romance, intrigue and danger to keep me fully engrossed all the way to the end.’★★★★★ ‘An interesting and unique plot to go with an imaginative group of characters, making this hard to put down.’★★★★★ ‘Love this book. Kept me reading & wondering where it was all going.’