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White Sand Blues

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First in a new series from award-winning author Vicki Delany.

When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown into the deep end when she arrives. Her new colleague picks her up at the airport in the island's only ambulance, which is called to the discovery of a body floating off the beach at the exclusive Club Louisa. The body is that of a man vacationing with his daughter and glamorous new wife. Coincidentally, Sally, the daughter of the dead man, recognizes Ashley from high school. She is convinced that her stepmother killed her father and begs Ashley to help her prove it. Before she can even unpack her bags or enjoy the view from her ocean-side apartment, Ashley is unwittingly dragged into a murder investigation.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read!

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    • Booklist

      August 1, 2017
      Canadian crime writer Delany (Blood and Belonging, 2017) has a variety of series to her credit, including one featuring RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson, and with this concise, easily comprehended mystery she launches a new line featuring paramedic Ashley Grant. Intent on making a good impression on her new job, Ashley has invested in fancy clothes, only to destroy them as she wades into the sea to retrieve a dead man. She has fled Toronto for the tiny Caribbean nation called Victoria and Albert Islands, grabbing at the lifeline of a one-year contract after her boyfriend's wrenching betrayal. Quickly embroiled in a murder investigation sparked by the divergent claims of the victim's wife and daughter, Ashley soon discovers that she isn't the only escapee from the Canadian cold in this alleged island paradise. Delany makes excellent use of a highly accessible narrative style, keeping her language simple while unspooling an intriguingly tangled plot in which Ashley's acute observational skills and stubborn and accurate sleuthing attract the initially skeptical, increasingly admiring attention of a handsome former Mountie serving as an island policeman.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:440
  • Text Difficulty:1-2

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