Better Off Dead

Successful Marin County, CA financier, Andy Barlow, is training in the cold San Francisco Bay for a competitive open water swim. Unexpectedly, his support boat runs him over midstroke, killing the swimmer instantaneously. Consumed with grief and anger, Andy's college-aged son Harrison, returns from London to probe what really happened. Although the local sheriff's office calls the tragedy an accident, Harrison refuses to believe their findings. He reaches out to amateur sleuth Trisha Carson to hunt down the real killer.Trisha digs into the man's history and finds fractured relationships in his family, his business and his marriage. There's clearly more than one person who had reason to seek a deadly revenge, but would they go as far as murder?

"Carroll's novel features snappy dialogue, brisk characterizations ... and generous helpings of technical detail about open water swimming." Kirkus Review

"Loaded with thought-provoking twists that challenge both Trisha and her readers, Better Off Dead is a fine foray into both charted and uncharted territory that proves a real page-turner." D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

If you want to find Glenda, she'll be in, on, or under water-and writing about it. She understands water sports on a very personal level since she swims, surfs and sails.Glenda wrote a weekly sailing column for the Marin Independent Journal for 19 years. She also wrote for local, national and international sailing publications. She branched into travel writing and her features have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travel & Leisure, Ford Times, Chevron USA, Defenders of Wildlife, and Bay & Delta Yachtsman.​The Trisha Carson series is set in the San Francisco Bay area. Her books have a swimming undercurrent, based on her own experience in open water swimming. She has raced in more than 150 open water events in Northern California, as well as Hawaii and Perth, Australia. She is listed in Openwaterpedia.comGlenda tutors first-generation high school and college students in English and History. She has an M.A. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and a B.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. She is the president of the Northern California Chapter of Sisters in Crime and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in San Rafael, CA with her dog McCovey.

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