{"id":899,"date":"2021-01-08T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/?page_id=899"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:25:00","slug":"review-in-seven-days-december-23-30-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/review-in-seven-days-december-23-30-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Review in Seven Days – December 23-30, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Inland Sea<\/h2>

Sam Clark, Rootstock Publishing, 290 pages. $16.95.<\/h5>
[H]e had taken to the water, to boats, fishing, and every other activity that can be done on a big lake.<\/blockquote>

Builder and cabinetmaker\u00a0Sam Clark<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is based in Plainfield, but his intimate knowledge of northwestern Vermont \u2014 specifically its waters \u2014 prevails like a central character in\u00a0The Inland Sea<\/i>. Though Clark has penned several books on design, this is his first mystery novel.<\/p>

Make that\u00a0mysteries<\/i>: Clark’s plot \u2014 and Detective Fred Davis’ conundrum \u2014 centers on a missing man who is presumed to have drowned 18 years earlier. That is, until he turns up freshly murdered on Lake Champlain’s Osprey Island. Why did Paul Brearley walk out on his wife and son, what was he doing for all those years, and why did he return to the family camp in the winter? Moreover, who killed him and why? (Oddly, Clark reveals much of this in early chapters, but a crew of Vermont detectives still has to figure it out.)<\/p>

Like fellow Vermont author\u00a0Archer Mayor<\/strong>, Clark dives deeply into his characters’ psyches and employs rich observations of place.\u00a0The Inland Sea<\/i>\u00a0is a promising debut, and this reader hopes for a return of Det. Davis.<\/p>

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The Inland Sea Sam Clark, Rootstock Publishing, 290 pages. $16.95. [H]e had taken to the water, to boats, fishing, and every other activity that can be done on a big lake. Builder and cabinetmaker\u00a0Sam Clark\u00a0is based in Plainfield, but his intimate knowledge of northwestern Vermont \u2014 specifically its waters \u2014 prevails like a central character… Read More »Review in Seven Days – December 23-30, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}