Review of Baily Lowell

Insightful, caring, inquisitive Baily Lowell is far from a silicon adolescent.  Instead, she is an original, not a "teen" but a person whose mind-of-her own gumption stirs up the poverty-line folks of her tiny fishing village called Pelton Bay, where off-center types like the psychic Madam Morivia and Breta, a female fisher person seem to each other quite ordinary.  Through the novel's gradual build-up to a whodunit narrative leads Baily to probe recent deaths thought "accidental", its setting and people have fullness that characters in mere thrillers lack.

         Reg Saner, author of "So this is the Map", "Four Cornored Falcon", and "Reaching Keet Seel"