Whisper of the Seals

A new Detective Moralès is always something I look forward to. We Were The Salt of The Sea and The Coral Bride both captivated me and so Whisper of the Seals was one of my most highly anticipated reads of the year. It's not necessary to have read the previous books but I would recommend doing so if......more

What a good read. Set on a vessel in an icy sea. It starts of as a slow burner but then keeps you wanting more. I haven’t read the previous books in the series but i will do and then reread this one. It can be read as a stand alone though.......more

This, the third Detective Joaquin Moralès book, is a compelling read. There are two plots. In one, Fisheries Officer Simone Lord, who has been transferred to the Magdalen Islands, is tasked with monitoring a late-season grey-seal hunt aboard the trawler . The unsavoury crew is antagonistic towards he......more

Whisper Of The Seals is a much welcomed return to Roxanne Bouchard’s characters Fisheries Officer Simone Lord and Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales. It is a quite remarkable piece of literature, written as a love song to both the landscape and the characters, but most of all in my opinion, to the re......more