My first thought when I was
setting this review up—when did Diane Sawyer of ABC write a book? A quick check
made it very clear this was a totally different person who has a number of
books out. It must make marketing the works an interesting challenge when one
shares the same name as a TV celebrity.
The Treasures of Montauk Cove by Diane Sawyer
Lilli Masters, on a stroll along
Grayrocks Beach, finds an unlabelled wine bottle, half buried and full of wine.
She’s in the area for the Convention on Long Island History, on assignment for
a magazine. The first person she visits after her beach stroll is Silas Jones,
proprietor of Nautical Treasures, a shop of new and old
merchandise. They’re
both looking forward to hearing his friend, Professor Thomas Reed, a marine
archeologist, speak the next morning. Little do they know that the sirens they
hear going past the shop are from police cars who have been called to the scene
of Professor Reed’s murder, the beach Lilli has just left.
Lillie is staying with friends, an older
couple, Margaret--whom she calls Gram--and her boyfriend, Bud. They provide
transportation and comic scenes throughout the story. She makes her way there
from the shop. When the body of Silas is
found behind his shop later the same day, Lilli meets up with the chief of
police, Hank Borden, a rather inept policeman. He repeatedly tells Lilli to
keep her nose out of his investigation, but she insists on sticking it in.
There are quite a few suspicious
characters running around at the conference. Lillie manages to attend a few
sessions, snapping photos all the while for her article. She picks up on the
tension between two factions. One side is in favor of donating to museums the treasures
that are retrieved from shipwrecks, usually by divers. The other side is for
finders keepers. Lillie gradually realizes that the wine bottle she found on
the beach is in the middle of this conflict, and also the murders.
She strives to solve the case, but not
before her life is threatened. Mysterious symbols and old documents hold
valuable information if Lilli can figure everything out in time. Puzzle solvers
will enjoy this.
Reviewed by Kaye George, Author of A Patchwork of Stories,
for Suspense Magazine
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