A friendly doctor offered to take her away and “cure” her when she was a child.Īs Cubiak investigates, he realizes the case of the sister, taken years ago from an immigrant family who spoke little English, and the case of Miguel, taken from his Mexican family, are related. In a seemingly unrelated call to an isolated farm, Cubiak meets an elderly woman who turns out to have a similar story about a missing sister who suffered from polio. The woman insists the boy is her brother Miguel, who was taken from her family by a doctor who promised to “cure” his Down syndrome. When a nearby scream interrupts Cubiak's regular lunch date at a hotel restaurant with his good friend the retired county coroner, Cubiak sprints into action only to find that a highly regarded and well-known doctor who was planning to deliver a speech at the hotel's medical conference has just died.Īs the doctor is taken away, Cubiak hears another piercing scream and finds a hotel maid pointing at a photo of a man and a boy on an open laptop. Like Claire, Dave has a tragic backstory that brings him to town, but by book five, Dave is settled, remarried, and has a young son. It's strongly reminiscent of Mary Logue’s fine Claire Watkins series, also set in a small Wisconsin town. Patricia Skalka’s Sheriff Dave Cubiak series, set in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin, is just such a series. She lives in Chicago and Door County WI.Sometimes university presses have a gem of a series they cultivate. Skalka is president of the Sisters in Crime Chicagoland Chapter and a member of several professional organizations, including The Authors Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, and Society of Midland Authors. Her many credits include: Staff Writer for Reader’s Digest, freelancer, ghost writer, writing instructor, and book reviewer. Skalka turned to fiction following a successful career in nonfiction. Death by the Bay is the fourth book in the series.
Set against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, the series kicks off with Death Stalks Door County and continues with Death at Gills Rock and Death In Cold Water. The Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries pit a former troubled Chicago cop against a roster of clever killers on the Door County Peninsula in the heart of the Midwest. All the characters spring off the pages.”-Maureen Jennings, author of the Murdoch Mysteries Sheriff Cubiak is the kind of man you would always want to handle such personal and painful matters. Is a mysterious medical institute pursuing a miracle cure-or covering up a heartless con? Join us for a rousing evening with local journalist Doug Moe interviewing author Patricia Skalka bout her newest Door County Mystery!
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