The Practical Navigator

Perfect for fans of Scott Turow and John Lescroart The Practical Navigator is a smart fast-moving legal thriller where everyones motives-and desires-are in question.Membership in the Great Arcadia an exclusive East Coast yacht club is pretty much limited to the rich and powerful in 1980s business finance and politics. But the sexually charged murder of Greek billionaire George Minot during their annual regatta off the coast of Maine opens a door into a secret world of addictive sexuality and excess beneath the starched sheets of the East Coast establishment.Tim Bigelow is looking forward to spending a week at sea with the magical Cassie Sears who has suddenly appeared in his life. Hes also there to celebrate his older brother Harry-the retiring commodore of the Great Arcadia whos on course for a major role in the White House. That prospect slips away when Minot is murdered and details start to come out including the alarming fact that Minot saw himself as a latter-day embodiment of the Minotaur-the half-man half-bull creature who lurked in the Labyrinth beneath the ancient city of Knossos in one of the oldest myths in the Western canon.From the decks of the worlds finest yachts to the beds and boardrooms of some of the most powerful people in America to an electrifying courtroom trial in a dying coastal town The Practical Navigator steers a course through its own labyrinth . . . a whirlpool of obsessive sexuality murder and despair.