Covering a windsurfing competition should have been a breeze for reporter Meg Reed, but with a killer in the curl, she's headed for rough waters…
Hood River in the Columbia River Gorge is the windsurfing capital of the world, and Meg is stoked to cover the King of the Hook event for Portland's Northwest Extreme magazine. Before the competition gets under way, Meg has a chance to try some windsurfing on her own. But when the current sweeps her downriver, she spots a body snagged on the rocks. The dead man is Justin Cruise, aka Cruise Control, a celebrity windsurfer and not exactly a nice guy. It's soon clear his death was no accident, and Cruise had no shortage of enemies. As Meg dives right in to discover who wiped out the windsurfer, she'll need to keep her balance--or she too may get blown away.
Another brilliant installment by Kate E. Dyer-Seeley, I am glad to be back reading about Meg!
This Summer in Portland is hot and sticky and Meg jumps at the chance to get away from the city and cool down, more to the point for the first time she actually may know something about the sport she is covering (well not really she was a swimmer not a windsurfer, but hey ... to do with water ... right?), the problems though kick off fairly quickly when she sees the winner of previous windsurfing competitions hassling a local business owner (granted the business is, in Meg's view, a little quirky being a gaming store, but still the hassling and hazing shouldn't be happening). Things only go down hill for Meg from there on in when early one morning (during a windsurfing lesson) she finds a dead body, the body of the same man she saw attacking the business. Now with a raft of suspects Meg needs to keep her head above water and figure out what happened ... and why!
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