Roxanne Bouchard: We were the salt of the sea, Orenda Books, paperback or ebook, 

I stumbled across this book when reading a review that prompted me to download the ebook. Set in Quebec' outlying Gaspe Peninsula, it provides a very atmospheric background for the small fishing community which appealed to me the most. The crime novel as such did not capture me as much as i had hoped. 

Catherine Day leaves Montreal to find her mother who had left her to be raised by friends to allow her to keep on sailing the world. When she gets to the village,  her mother's body has just been found and she learns that Marie Garant had been an independent spirits and a beauty who had twisted several men's heart. Detective Morales has just arrived in the village and finds himself investigating the death of this charismatic older woman with an equally stunning daughter. 

For me there was too much repetition of love stories between Marie and the men in the village, a story I found uninspiring  and when Detective Morales gets the hots for Catherine, I finally thought this novel did not deliever what I hoped it would. Such are differences in taste. I will not be reading book 2 or 3.