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Surface Tension
by Christine Kling (Reader: Laural Merlington)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Brilliance Audio (2002-11-26)
ISBN: 1590865103
EAN: 9781590865101
Dewy Decimal #: 813.6
Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Release Date: 2002-11-26
SKU: BX045-070508009
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Clean and shiny, complete, 4 cassettes. Original box has minor wear.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Years ago Seychelle Sullivan had the chance to save a person's life. But on that summer night in Fort Lauderdale, lost in a world of teenage resentment and loneliness, Seychelle was not able to comprehend any pain but her own. Today Seychelle captains her forty-six-foot salvage boat out of Fort Lauderdale's New River. She's seen change sweep through South Florida, and has witnessed friends and lovers come and go. But she's never escaped that one moment when she could have made a difference and didn't. Now each time she rescues a ship in distress, a little hope stirs in her again.
On a steamy Florida morning Seychelle is answering a Mayday call launched from a five-million-dollar Broward yacht called Top Ten. Racing her fiercest competitor for salvage rights, Seychelle has a personal stake in this rescue: Her former lover, Neal Garrett, is the yacht's hired skipper. But being the first to reach Top Ten will lead Seychelle to a bloody payday. A beautiful woman has been stabbed to death onboard. And Garrett is no where to be found.
Even on shore, the pressures are mounting - Seychelle owes money on her boat, and her love life is in shambles. Within twenty-four hours of finding the dead woman and towing Top Ten out of the surf, Seychelle realizes that she has stepped into a lethal business involving some of South Florida's sleaziest criminals.
While the police treat her as the prime suspect, Seychelle begins to unravel a tangled plot centered on a strip club where "all the girls are tens on top." Discovering the sordid secrets of the owner of the yacht she rescued and the fate of the man she once loved, Seychelle is connecting human predators with innocent victims, and a mystery on land with a mystery buried deep beneath the sea. Now, to find out what really happened to Neal Garrett, Seychelle must retrace his last steps, through two murders and a horrific crime wave to a final confrontation with someone who may want to kill her...or be her salvation.
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Customer Reviews
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Already in the trash can
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-05-09
Gets one star only because Kling expended considerable effort in writing it. This is one of the worst books I have ever been conned into buying. Title is misleading. I didn't feel any tension. After struggling for half the book I finally gave up and tossed it. Christine Kling should stick with her boating and boating buddies and let legitimate authors write the books.
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Surface Tension
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-06-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I enjoyed this story set in Florida very much. Miss Kling writes about a very likable female character who is capable of getting out of some tough spots. I learned a lot about salvaging boats and Fort Lauderdale...for me this was a plus since I've never been to Florida. It's a different way of life that was interesting to read about. I've already purchased the next in the series I enjoyed this one so much.
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great series
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-03-27
I've just discovered Christine Kling's marine suspense series, set in Ft. Lauderdale...reminiscient of John MacDonald only from a contemporary (and autonomous) woman's perspective...just finishing her most recent Wrecker's Key now/reading leisurely because I know its the last for now...and I know I will be waiting for the next tale in Seychelle's (her central character) narrative. Very well done.
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Riveting Suspense - Couldn't Stop Reading 'til the End
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-11-08
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Christine Kling creates a cadre of believable characters with outstanding personalities who fit together as tightly as a person wearing a skin diver's suit. From page one, the reader is drawn to Seychelle Sullivan, a 30 year old, female tugboat captain who is repairing the flusher on her vessel. It should have been fixed by B.J., her handsome shipmate of Samoan descent, who often accompanies her on towing jobs. Seychelle is interrupted by a May day call on the VHF channel ... which grabs the reader's attention and holds the suspense to the very last page.
This book is a totally satisfying reading experience. The author's obvious familiarity with nautical terms, which she liberally sprinkles throughout the book, enlivens the mysterious new environment into which the reader enters. The heroine is even more engaging because she works in a "man's world", in a unique occupation that is nearly extinct due to modernization. Little by little, we learn that Seychelle and her two brothers inherited the tugboat named, Gorda, from her dad who died three years ago of cancer. Right from the start, the reader identifies with Seychelle as she struggles to attain towing jobs in a very competitive industry. Seychelle is the first responder to the distress call ... she discovers an unmanned yacht out in the water, one which her former boyfriend had captained ... worse than that, she discovers a pool of blood and the body of a young lady who was stabbed to death
Seychelle's mind works over-time, fearing the worst - that her former boyfriend, Neal Garrett may have committed the murder. She follows protocol and reports the event through proper channels. The Coast Guard and Fort Lauderdale detectives enter the scene, after which she is thoroughly grilled by Detective Collazo. It gradually dawns on her that she is the "prime suspect" in this gruesome murder. As anyone would do, she takes great risks to follow every hunch and clue, to collect evidence, any information ... to clear her good name and discover the truth.
As a first novel, the book is astonishing in its depth, breadth, and superb detail - holding the reader's attention from beginning to end. As other reviewers stated, "I could not put it down" which is the highest compliment one can give any book.
Erika Borsos (erikab93)
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Not bad
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-04-08
1 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Very predictible, Ms. Kling leaves no doubt as to who the "surprise" villains are going to be, but overall it's not a bad little story.
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