<p><em>When a bomb blew a fishing boat out of Lake Michigan those on board weren&rsquo;t what they appeared to be &hellip; nor were the assassins whom Detective Harlan Holmes now hunts.</em></p><p>Disgraced PI Harlan Holmes and his erstwhile ex-con sidekick Tank return in John Marks&rsquo; second Northern Michigan thriller <em>Scam on the Cove</em>. Thinking he&rsquo;s washed his hands of his inadvertent ties to the Chicago mob families for good Harlan has settled into a reliable if somewhat boring existence in Traverse City. But when an explosion at an UpNorth marina rocks a normally quiet resort community Harlan discovers that the mob hasn&rsquo;t forgotten him at all.</p>