“Sea Fever” follows George and Molly Palmer-Jones who are asked to go on a sea excursion to find a man (Greg Franks) who won’t contact his family. Both are reluctant to take the case, but because George is bird mad he agrees and gets caught up on looking at birds. Greg goes missing and then is found roped onto the boat and apparently murdered. George and Molly investigate who would have the motive to kill the young man and why.
Well this one definitely had a better resolution/ending than the last book in the series. I know that I am supposed to be enjoying George and Molly as a husband and wife detective team, but this and the last book makes it seem like they don’t even like each other. And Molly gets caught up trying to prove George wrong all the time. The dynamics make me not really enjoy these books that much. The first two in the series I thought worked and I liked how they worked together to solve mysteries. George and Molly both had strengths and used them throughout the book. George is often on the wrong track it seems and Molly always seems to know who did what and why.
This book has another character we follow throughout this named Claire. She’s a detective investigating the murder on the boat, and George was a hero of hers. I think that brought a welcome perspective to these books because George and Molly are both exhausting.
I do enjoy reading these books since these are Cleeves first works and it’s interesting to see her turn from this series to others where I think her plot and character development worked so much better.
I read this book for CBR17bingo, “Favorite: A reread of a favorite book, a book by a favorite author, a book in a favorite genre, or about a favorite topic.” Ann Cleeves is definitely a favorite author of mine.