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Death Rides the Ferry (A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery) Paperback – March 3, 2020

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It’s a sparkling August day on Washington Island and the resonant notes of early classical music float on the breeze toward the sailboats and ferries that ply the waters of Death’s Door strait. After a forty-year absence, the Viola da Gamba Music Festival has returned to the picturesque isle on the tip of Wisconsin’s Door County peninsula. Sheriff Dave Cubiak enjoys a rare day off as tourists and a documentary film crew hover around the musicians.
 
The jubilant mood sours when an unidentified passenger is found dead on a ferry. Longtime residents recall with dismay the disastrous festival decades earlier, when another woman died and a valuable sixteenth-century instrument—the fabled yellow viol—vanished, never to be found.
 
Cubiak follows a trail of murder, kidnapping, and false identity that leads back to the calamitous night of the twin tragedies. With the lives of those he holds most dear in peril, the sheriff pursues a ruthless killer into the stormy northern reaches of Lake Michigan.
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    Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries
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    March 3, 2020
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  7. ISBN-10
    0299318044
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"An intricate, intriguing plot in which Door County Sheriff Dave Cubiak can stop a ruthless killer only by finding the link between a spate of murders and a forty-year-old mystery." ―Michael Stanley, author of the Detective Kubu series

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Patricia Skalka is the author of Death Stalks Door County, Death at Gills Rock, and Death in Cold Water, winner of the Edna Ferber Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. She is president of the Chicagoland chapter of Sisters in Crime and divides her time between Chicago and Door County, Wisconsin. A former staff writer at Reader’s Digest, she presents writing workshops throughout the United States. Her nonfiction books have been published by Random House, St. Martin’s, and Rodale.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Wisconsin Press; First Edition (March 3, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0299318044
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0299318048
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
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Patricia Skalka is the author of the Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries which premiered with "Death Stalks Door County" (2014) and quickly followed up with "Death At Gills Rock" (2015). "Death in Cold Water" (2016) received the Edna Ferber Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.

“A first-rate series” says Kirkus Reviews.

“The intricate plot and well-developed characters will appeal to fans of William Kent Krueger,” says Booklist.

A Chicago native, Skalka is a former Reader’s Digest Staff Writer and freelancer with human interest and medical articles in national print and online publications and nonfiction books published by Random House, St. Martin’s and Rodale. She is a member of The Authors Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Society of Midland Authors and the Chicago Writers Association.

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M.L.O.
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Patricia Skalka's Writing & Dave Cubiak
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
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All of the books in this series are well written. The author's writing is so perfectly descriptive that I find I am picturing a conversation or scene as if I am there. The mysteries are unusual and hold my interest. And, of course, I love Dave Cubiak and the other regular characters. I am reading the last in the series now and am sad that it ends. I look forward to going to bed so that I can be transported to Door County and the evolving stories there.
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W. Taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2022
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This is my favorite of this series. Interesting, well drawn characters, and good dialog. The climax is enthralling and satisfying. Well worth the read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Music Festival
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020
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On beautiful Washington island at the tip of Door County. Who could imagine that such a setting would spawn 3 murders that seem to have some connection to the first Viol music festival held forty years previously when the very rare yellow Viol was stollen and has never been found. Sheriff Cubiak has his mission complicated by false leads and too many suspects. I enjoyed learning about the older stringed instruments called Viols de Gamba.
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M Girdzius
5.0 out of 5 stars My new favorite author
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2019
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Door County is my home-away-from-home, and mystery stories are my favorite read. No wonder I love this series, and have come to admire the great writing within. I highly recommend reading them all, can't wait for the next one!
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Barbara Kramer
5.0 out of 5 stars DOOR COUNTY native
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2018
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I grew up in DOOR COUNTY so it brought the story to life for me..I knew the locations and the plot was exciting!! A good read
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Jennifer J. Baron-cera
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2018
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It was great!! I had just been to Washington Island and returned to see my book had arrived.
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KJB53
5.0 out of 5 stars Could not stop reading
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024
I liked the pace of the book. I liked that descriptions were not over done but precise and needed. Enjoy
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Mabmac
5.0 out of 5 stars Door County Wisconsin Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2018
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Another great books in the series.
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