Still Water: Still Water

Peter Bartholomew Mysteries #6

by Gunning

Overburdened odd-job entrepreneur Peter Bartholomew is drawn into an undercover investigation in which he must protect fragile new bride Claire Simmons from a killer who may be among the people closest to her. Original.

Genres: Mystery

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

Reviews

[Priscilla Herrington · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sally Gunning’s Peter Bartholomew mystery series includes ten books, While each is a stand-alone story, I really enjoyed reading all ten in order. The main characters appear and re-appear, and relationships are formed. The “mystery” that riders atop all the separate cases is, will Peter and his ex-wife, Connie, get back together again? Should they? There are other questions that carry through more than one book, like Peter’s sister and her taste in men, and then there are various matters of small town life on Nashtoba Island, off Cape Hook – a locale that has a certain similarity to Cape Cod.

Peter is trying to romance Connie - but has been hired as an undercover body guard for a fragile and lovely sculptress whose husband is concerned about the many accidents she keeps suffering...

[Suzanne Skelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peter Bartholomew is busy trying to romance his ex-wife Connie, and ride the rip tide of clutter in his office/ home.

The odd- job entrepreneur is drowning in work when upper-crusty newcomer Anthony Simmons shows up with a problem- someone may be trying to kill his beautiful new wife.

Claire has been poisoned by pesticide, and has fallen through the stairs in the newly renovated barn . Simmons wants Pete to go undercover as a handyman. He can not alert the authorities because his sculptress spouse is pathologically afraid of police.