Canadian author Mike Martin, born in Newfoundland, is a well known freelance writer and his articles and essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and online across Canada as well as in the United States and New Zealand. He is Past Chair of the Board of Crime Writers of Canada, and a member of the Newfoundland Writing Guild and Ottawa Independent Writers. His books include Change the Things You Can: Dealing with Difficult People as well as his ongoing series The Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series of which SAFE HARBOUR is Book 10. He now lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario.For those for whom this is the first exposure to the series, the Sgt. Winston Windflower mystery series shares tales about a Mountie who finds himself with a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland. Many of the characters from the first volume remain and most assuredly the setting of the dramas remains a place we learn to know well, but Mike has that uncanny ability to open a new story with enough mix of entertainment and magnetizing hints of the mystery to come to capture the attention and imagination. For example, in the first paragraphs we read, ‘Windflower looked across the lake. Well, he would have if he could have seen anything through the thick blanket of fog that had been sitting on Quidi Vidi Lake for the past seven days. One whole week, he thought. Every day since they arrived in the port city of St. John’s, it had been the same. Windflower knew the lake was out there because he remembered running around it as his daily exercise when he was temporarily stationed here a few years back.’ And with that congenial opening the fine little mystery enters.Mike summarizes the plot in his synopsis: ‘Sgt. Windflower is on a special assignment in St. John’s and adjusting to life in the big city. He is navigating traffic, a difficult boss at work and what seems like an epidemic of missing girls. He becomes more interested when he discovers that one of the girls is from Grand Bank. Then a girl approaches his RCMP van one night and he is pulled into the under life of the capital city.’ New characters as well as old friends combine to make this story a pleasure to read.This is one finely written mystery, complete with all the aspects of mature writing that allow the description to be ‘a cozy mystery’. It has it all. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, June 21