Under the Surface by Lori Paige
Sheriff’s Deputy Leslie Shaw thinks she has the easiest job on the coast: patrolling the sleepy beachside town of Craggy Cove, Maine, for tipsy tourists and rowdy students from the nearby community college. She’s also just moved in with one of the professors and his teenaged daughter, who’s none too thrilled with the new living arrangement. Soon, though, her domestic problems pale in comparison to the case she’s forced to investigate. Beachgoers are being savagely attacked, a fisherman is pulled from his boat in the middle of the harbor, and strange figures are seen wandering the beach at dawn. The only clues point to the newly established Institute for Oceanographic Research and its unusual director, the renowned scientist Gerard LaBrecque. Are LaBrecque and his colleagues studying more than tides and temperatures? And why do the wounds on those attacked resemble the marks left by sea monsters in the old books Leslie finds in the local library? When Tim’s daughter vanishes under mysterious circumstances, Leslie must risk everything to uncover the truth and save the lives of everyone in her community. Read the novel here.
