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Category: Book
Author: Stephen Anable
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Studio: Poisoned Pen Press
Manufacturer: Poisoned Pen Press
Label: Poisoned Pen Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 348
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1590584805
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781590584804
ASIN: 1590584805
Publication Date: May 10, 2008
Release Date: May 10, 2008
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Product Description
Spiraling from the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown has long been a place of freedom, escape, diversity, and risk. A gay resort, an art colony, and a working fishing port, it is at once gritty and hedonistic, beautiful and complex.
Boston comic Mark Winslow arrives with his troupe of improv actors ready to break into the Provincetown club circuit. But the town and the region?seared by drought and caught in the culture war?are anything but peaceful this summer. Does the tall ship in the harbor bear an unusually large number of Scandinavian tourists? If not, who are the blond and ragged people insisting they are associated with it?
Then a public fight makes Mark the prime suspect in the grisly butchering of a Boston blueblood. Mark believes his choice is simple: find the killer or be charged with the crime.
Amid the clam shacks and craft shops, art galleries and nude beaches, undercurrents are pulling at the surface of normality, like riptides beneath seemingly calm water. Could the disappearance of a famous painter 80 years in the past?and the story of his masterpiece, The Fisher Boy?somehow lie at the center of the whirlpool of evil threatening to extinguish Mark?s life? The Fisher Boy is Stephen Anable?s debut novel.
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 A tense thriller evolves, perfect for mystery collections October 10, 2008
Boston comic Mark has arrived to Provincetown with a group of fellow actors ready to break into the town's club circuit - but when he gets into a public fight with a famous local and becomes the prime suspect when the lawyer is murdered, Mark finds himself reluctantly drawn into the role of an investigator to clear his name. A tense thriller evolves, perfect for mystery collections.
AN INTRIGUING MYSTERY NOVEL WITH VIVID IMAGES August 30, 2008
"The Fisher Boy" is an intriguing novel set in the arts community of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Stephen Anable cleverly intersperses clues with red herrings, and takes the reader on a wild mystery ride with unexpected twists and turns. The writing is so vivid and vibrant that I felt like I was watching a movie---or maybe even IN one! I highly recommend "The Fisher Boy" to anyone who likes a well crafted mystery that is beautifully told!
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6 out of 6 found this review helpful
By the end of the book I was more interest in where the next simile was going to fall then where the plot was going.
This meandering story is told through Mark Winslow a gay man vacationing in Provincetown. Mark has given up his main career and had decided to bring his improv group to P-town for the summer to see if they have what it takes to break into the club circuit. But the peace and quiet are quickly broken when a dog is found murders on the mailbox of a wealthy man, a group of curious Scandinavian's tourist, who look more like panhandlers take over the town and Mark finds out more about his past then he bargained for.
Add in the death of another high profile community leader and a painting that tells a story of it's own and you have a book that wanders in too many directions at one time with a rather anticlimactic ending. If it wasn't for the last 20 or so pages where the author recaps the whole thing I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to tell you what this book was supposed to be about.
Can't recommend this one; maybe next time if he can figure out the one or two plotlines that he wants to stick with.
 Provincetown debut June 23, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Summering in P-town in hopes of jump starting a new career in improv, Mark Winslow instead finds himself looking into the wave of crime that strikes the community. Is it gay bashing? Fundamentalist fanatics? Eco-warriors? Or are the crimes unrelated? Well, they are certainly connected in that they all involve Mark's friends, and the deeper his investigation goes, the more complex and tangled the web becomes.
The Fisher Boy is an ambitious murder mystery, with enough plot elements to support 2 additional novels. Well written, infused with satisfying imagery, populated by substantive characters, the story speeds along, drawing the reader into its various puzzles and crises. The gay culture so long ensconced in P-town is portrayed believably, and the clash of cultures and belief systems is also well handled. It does makes for an enjoyable reading experience, but leaves little room for any substantive development. For example, the book's central image, the painting of the fisher boy, promises an intellectual element that fails to materialize. In like manner, the motivations of some of the miscreants are facile, but on the whole, implausible. Nevertheless, author Anable has produced a respectable and literate first novel, a welcome addition to the genre.
Mr. Anable Reels In The Reader With The Fisher Boy June 20, 2008
The violent death in the gay community on Cape Cod that is at the heart of this mystery story may result from soured relationships in that community--or it may relate to the extremist cult in the area, or the anti-gay religious group that is demonstrating in town, or the prep school grudges that still have life, or the scandals and greed of the deceased's blueblood family. Mr. Anable's debut novel kept me wondering until the very end. And along the way it delighted me with the salty taste and imagery of Cape Cod. I look forward to reading Mr. Anable's second novel--and I hope that I do not have to wait too long for it!
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