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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Interview with Historic Naval Fiction

Questions and answers, and Beckoning Ice

Created on Tuesday, 04 December 2012 03:00
Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 December 2012 00:22
By David Hayes
The Beckoning IceHistoric Naval Fiction is pleased to have obtained an Interview with Joan Druett whose new novel in the Wiki Coffin Mystery series, The Beckoning Ice, will be available on Amazon shortly.
What can you tell us about The Beckoning Ice, without spoiling the plot for readers?
In this, the fifth book in the Wiki Coffin mystery series, it is February 1839, and the ships of the United States Exploring Expedition are thrashing about dreaded Cape Horn, on their way to a rendezvous at Orange Harbor, Tierra del Fuego, on a crazy mission to be the first to find Antarctica. A sealing schooner hails the brig Swallow with a strange tale of a murdered corpse on an iceberg- surely an impossible case for Wiki Coffin to solve, especially as he is soon distracted by a violent killing on board. Threatened by vicious murderers himself, he is forced to voyage as far as the beckoning ice before the double case is concluded...

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1 comment:

Shayne Parkinson said...

What an excellent interview! I really enjoyed reading that. Wiki sounds fascinating.