Kennedy Weible: Dirty Myrtle

Sailor Cassidy is an HVAC technician nursing emotional bruises from her last relationship. Wanting to help her sister Carrie gather proof of a cheating husband, she conducts surveillance on him and has been for a while.

This amateur endeavor coils into something nasty, when Sailor’s stakeout runs across Officer Tusk Knight on a mission for his captain. And then a kidnapping takes place that neither of them could have expected.

Weible’s voice is solid – the writing has energy, is observant and edged with humour. Nicely, it doesn’t lose sight of the real people impacted in the story.

All in all, Dirty Myrtle is a community where everyone knows too much and still misses the obvious. Funny beach-town noir with sand in its shoes and trouble in every strip mall..