Loma View

About the Book

The quiet sailing life at Loma View Yacht Club in San Diego is shockingly disrupted when a battered body is found floating among the small club's docks. It turns out that the corpse, who had not been a member, was a drug pusher who had been attracted to the club by its most seductive vamp. But, more important, who murdered the thug and why? The soft-spoken detective investigating the case keeps turning up new suspects. In fact, there soon are so many suspects, things get a bit confusing. But, with quiet patience, the detective slowly zeroes in on one of the more unlikely suspects. So how come he can't make an arrest?

About the Author

Journalist John McPeek?s first sailboat was a crude flat-bottom vessel that he and a boyhood friend constructed of scrap wood decades ago in Bucyrus, Ohio. Its length was about six feet, its mast a broom handle, and the sail was made of cardboard. The boat was launched in the shallow Sandusky River and hailed as a great success, despite the fact that it leaked profusely and would only sail with the current. Many years later, John?s newspaper career carried him to San Diego, where he went out of his way to make friends with sailboat owners. Eventually he bought his own boat. As years passed, he moved up to bigger sailboats, the last being a 28-foot Cape Dory sloop, in which he and his wife, Virginia, often sailed to Catalina Island, 80 miles northwest of San Diego. He is also author of the novel Hostle?s Hush.