His assistant, marooned at the justice center overnight, calls with an ominous message about a body discovered on the beach. He leaves the comfort of his home and heads out into the aftermath, checking in with folks along the way to offer help. In the wake of a brutal storm that lashed the Door County peninsula, Sheriff Dave Cubiak assesses the damage: broken windows, downed trees, and piles of mysterious debris along the shoreline. Patricia Skalka's rendering of Cubiak and all the colorful characters in Death Washes Ashore is compelling and empathetic, written in simple, elegant language and revealing dialogue. “Dave Cubiak, the taciturn, grieving, relentless sheriff of Door County and irresistible protagonist, has a problem.
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