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Hold Your Fear Close: A Noah Drinkwater Mystery
She's new to the Island. She's new to the Police Force. But, she's not new to Evil. She's going where no woman has gone before, with eyes wide open and her fear under control. She has a secret, kept safe in her heart, waiting for the day when she will be forced to use it. Now, she holds her fear close, biding her time until she needs the power of her secret.
Chief Noah Drinkwater and his officers have been struggling to defeat the crime wave invading their small town of Fairhaven, located on an Island in the beautiful Gulf of Maine waters. No sooner do they get one group locked up, when another takes its place. The current wave of criminals has appeared without warning and has secretly disappeared into the nooks and crannies of the town. Noah and his Assistant Chief Isaac Sanders have their their suspicions. One, that Muriel Deane, their most-hated Crime Boss, has been released from her prison cell without any of the local police being notified, and Two, that Janie and the unholy Rentz father-daughter team, are back in control, proving that 'money talks'.
Noah and Isaac have been marked for assassination and Mayor Tom Sewell and his police officers are scrambling to find ways to protect them. Then, abruptly, help appears out of the blue from an unlikely source.
Will it be in time? Will the criminals be defeated?
Don't miss this sixth book in the Gulf of Maine Mysteries Series.
Featuring handsome, smart and well-liked Chief Noah Drinkwater.
You'll Love it!!
Chief Noah Drinkwater and his officers have been struggling to defeat the crime wave invading their small town of Fairhaven, located on an Island in the beautiful Gulf of Maine waters. No sooner do they get one group locked up, when another takes its place. The current wave of criminals has appeared without warning and has secretly disappeared into the nooks and crannies of the town. Noah and his Assistant Chief Isaac Sanders have their their suspicions. One, that Muriel Deane, their most-hated Crime Boss, has been released from her prison cell without any of the local police being notified, and Two, that Janie and the unholy Rentz father-daughter team, are back in control, proving that 'money talks'.
Noah and Isaac have been marked for assassination and Mayor Tom Sewell and his police officers are scrambling to find ways to protect them. Then, abruptly, help appears out of the blue from an unlikely source.
Will it be in time? Will the criminals be defeated?
Don't miss this sixth book in the Gulf of Maine Mysteries Series.
Featuring handsome, smart and well-liked Chief Noah Drinkwater.
You'll Love it!!
284 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2021
About the author
Susan Davis Cummings
9 booksAbout Susan Davis Cummings
Susan grew up in Yarmouth, Maine, home of the Yarmouth Clam Festival. She and her younger brother and sisters spent their free time roaming the woods and byways of their neighborhood. Her descriptions of a younger Noah Drinkwater's activities are loosely based on her memories of those days.
After college Susan not only visited libraries and book dealers, she also worked in several. With her husband, she visited many areas of the country but was never far from water, especially the Atlantic Ocean. Her love of the natural world has never changed.
Susan enjoys reading, writing, travel, spending time with her family, and daydreaming. Eventually, the daydreaming led her to the writing.
While in Maine Susan often thought about writing a book, but it took thirteen years in Florida to turn her into a Maine writer. Susan is descended through her mother from a Portland, Maine sea captain, named Drinkwater, who sailed around the world, and decided the name was perfect for her fictional Police Chief Noah Drinkwater.
Susan can be found on Facebook under her full name, Susan Davis Cummings. Connect with her blog called "Susan Davis Cummings Writes Mysteries" by clicking on the link on her Facebook page, or going to Blogger.com.
Susan grew up in Yarmouth, Maine, home of the Yarmouth Clam Festival. She and her younger brother and sisters spent their free time roaming the woods and byways of their neighborhood. Her descriptions of a younger Noah Drinkwater's activities are loosely based on her memories of those days.
After college Susan not only visited libraries and book dealers, she also worked in several. With her husband, she visited many areas of the country but was never far from water, especially the Atlantic Ocean. Her love of the natural world has never changed.
Susan enjoys reading, writing, travel, spending time with her family, and daydreaming. Eventually, the daydreaming led her to the writing.
While in Maine Susan often thought about writing a book, but it took thirteen years in Florida to turn her into a Maine writer. Susan is descended through her mother from a Portland, Maine sea captain, named Drinkwater, who sailed around the world, and decided the name was perfect for her fictional Police Chief Noah Drinkwater.
Susan can be found on Facebook under her full name, Susan Davis Cummings. Connect with her blog called "Susan Davis Cummings Writes Mysteries" by clicking on the link on her Facebook page, or going to Blogger.com.
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October 24, 2025
The final Noah Drinkwater Mystery is also the longest one. In the early pages, there were two memorable occasions where the author chose to describe action scenes after the fact via dialogue which I found an odd choice. Thankfully, there was plenty of action, and then some to make up for it as the book got going. (At the end of the book, this method is employed again but it was describing an interrogation which may or may not have been better. I'm on the fence.)
I suspect it's more to do with self-publishing through Amazon than the author or her editors but the biggest turn-off for me was the poor formatting. On the minor end, there were no page numbers which may be an OCD nitpick but, on the major end, there was a chapter that I feel probably was meant to be earlier in the book than it was: A character who died then goes back to work before they have the funeral in the following chapter...
New and interesting characters are introduced and I'm sad we won't find out what happens with them.
I surprisingly revealed in my first review of the series that the author is my late aunt. Due to this, my most favorite parts were her use of family names including naming bad guys after her siblings. In this book in particular, much of the dialogue reminded me of my grandfather...
I suspect it's more to do with self-publishing through Amazon than the author or her editors but the biggest turn-off for me was the poor formatting. On the minor end, there were no page numbers which may be an OCD nitpick but, on the major end, there was a chapter that I feel probably was meant to be earlier in the book than it was: A character who died then goes back to work before they have the funeral in the following chapter...
New and interesting characters are introduced and I'm sad we won't find out what happens with them.
I surprisingly revealed in my first review of the series that the author is my late aunt. Due to this, my most favorite parts were her use of family names including naming bad guys after her siblings. In this book in particular, much of the dialogue reminded me of my grandfather...
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