Safe Harbour

by Mike Martin

Published by Ottawa Press Publishing

Design and composition: Magdalene Carson RGD, New Leaf Publication Design

Cover based on a photograph by Larry Mahoney

Author, Mike Martin, has created a singularly unique concept in The Sergeant Windflower Mystery Series by blending police procedures with Cree spiritual traditions. Safe Harbour abounds with life lessons. He has cleverly crafted an elaborately complex book wisely presenting a myriad of human foibles and the challenges faced by his protagonist, Sergeant Winston Windflower, as he interacts with those around him.

The author will invite you into the Windflower home and introduce you to Sheila, his wife and his two daughters Amelia Louise and Stella. Each of his children presents their own unique conundrums.

Martin will take you on a journey vicariously through Windflower’s life. You will share his trepidation and triumph; his anguish and his elation as he endeavours to bring human traffickers and drug dealers to book and rescue several young girls caught up in a maelstrom of naïve misadventure and terror. Even as the destructive attitudes of his superiors and colleagues threaten to suppress his enthusiasm and impede the return of the enslaved and terrified juveniles to safety and their families.

This book will teach us through the eyes of Winston Windflower that family is a title given to those we hold dearly to our hearts. We extend it to those who come into our lives and, no matter what, through thick or thin, seem to stay. DNA is not always shared, but the feeling is undeniably there. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important than family.

I highly recommend this emotionally charged cosy police procedural or what I refer to as a brosy mystery.

James D. A. Terry