Carl Schmidt

Jesse Thorpe is a musician, a carpenter and a private investigator. For the first 6 years of having a PI license he has had maybe 6 cases. While on a fishing trip in his native Maine he learns that William Lavoilette, the Governor of Maine has been murdered. Everyone is shocked as the governor was a well-like politican.

Suddenly, a former client calls him to come and protect her, she will explain the details when he sees her. He is to pick her up from the island where the Governor was assassinated.

A little slow to start but once it began it was a fun read.… (mehr)

Dead Down East” by Carl Schmidt is the first book in the “Jesse Thorpe Mystery” series. When part-time musician, part-carpenter and part-time detective, Jesse Thorpe receives a phone call from former client Cynthia Dumais, his vacation is cut short. Ms Dumais has witnessed the murder of the Governor, with whom she’s been having a illicit affair, and is seeking protection and counsel. Jesse must safeguard his client and solve the murder, all the while balancing his relationships with the band, Ms Dumais, his girlfriend Angele, and his handgun Rhonda. The characters are well developed and believable and the story flows easily. It is wonderfully written and endlessly entertaining. It’s worth reading just for the magical description of the fishing trip on the lake in the first chapter. I thoroughly recommend “Dead Down East”.… (mehr)