Point Deception

Chicago Nordejoong #1

by Victoria McKernan

Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, yellow remainder mark.) Hardcover first edition - New Carroll & Graf,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, yellow remainder mark.). First printing. Author's 2nd mystery set in South Florida and featuring Chicago, a young widow who, with her Haitian helper, makes her living collecting exotic fishes from the reefs.

Hardcover

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

Victoria McKernan started traveling at the age of eighteen and spent many years working her way around the world, hitchhiking and sailing. She graduated in 1982 from George Washington University with a BA in theatre. Since learning to scuba-dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, she has worked as a scuba instructor, underwater model, and divemaster on several ships. She lives in Washington D.C. with a dog, two cats, and a boa constrictor.

She has written four mystery/thrillers for adults, all of which feature underwater adventure. Her most recent adult novel, THE MOSQUITO WAR (under the name of V.A. MacAlister - Tor, 2001), deals with international conspiracies to control a cure for malaria that comes from an underwater plant.

The award-winning book, SHACKLETON’S STOWAWAY (Knopf, 2005), is her first young adult novel. Knopf will publish THE DEVIL’S PAINTBOX, her next young adult novel, in Spring 2009.