Fish or Cut Bait: A Pike

Gina Cachinni arrived in Erie, Pennsylvania, on a day when fog blanketed the bay and the staff of Pike's Marina witnessed a scene straight out of the Bermuda Triangle. She was here to ask a favor from her childhood sweetheart, Jack Crevalle, ex-Coast Guard hero now living life like a character out of a Jimmy Buffett song. But Jack didn't want anything to do with her. At least not until the fog lifted. And that's when things got really strange. Normally boisterous Jack turned sullen, and Tommy Teague, former Navy investigator with a major timidity towards women, began taking an acute interest in Gina. Soon after, the bodies started piling up and the police began asking questions. Next thing they knew, Jack and Teague were both taking journeys into their pasts. But was there anything to it all? Were the events of the past few days related? Or was everybody simply running off on tangents, connecting unrelated dots? No one at Pike's Marina could answer those questions. Not until Jack decided if he should fish or cut bait. And then the answers became fatally obvious to everyone