#4 in the Karl Alberg series. This 1991 series entry is sub-standard. Although the protagonist, RCMP sergeant Karl Alberg is a very engaging character, his relationship with librarian Cassandra moves at glacial speed and is boring to the verge of irritation. In this novel, except for a brief Karl-Cassandra lawn swing conversation and Karl's interview of the cat lady in Chapter 4, the first 82 pages (before Karl and Cassandra discover the victim)are occupied by the interactions of large group of generally uninteresting (if not completely unlikeable) characters who graduated high school together 10 years earlier or are related to the graduates. Readable as a continuation of the series, I would skip it as a stand-alone mystery.Karl Alberg series - Mountie Karl Alberg was expecting a room with a view--what he got was a corpse with a story to tell. When he takes his on-again, off-again "significant other," town librarian Cassandra Mitchell, on a boat trip to a sun-drenched cove on the Pacific coast, a body turns up, and Alberg must sift through a bewildering variety of clues to solve the murder.
