Mike Martin’s Windflower series is addictive

Mike Martin cannot write these stories fast enough for me. Newfoundland is a magic place filled with colourful communities and delightful characters with a million stories. Mike Martin has woven these elements into mysteries built around folklore, food, conversation, and, a lyrical landscape. That Sgt. Windflower is from an equally delightful Cree community is inspired.

A Tangled Web is probably the best in the series (I’ve listened to them all). As the story goes, Windflower is once again involved in a crime that puts the Mountie to the test. However, all through the story, the blending of the multiple characters’ stories, the pleasant dialogue about life in a small close knit community, almost seems like the crime is just another part of the palette painted by Martin.
The story quickly evolves into a potentially terrifying scenario involving a child and her disappearance. However, Windflower is on the case and eventually gets his man through the clever plot devised by Martin.

The ongoing characters - the doctor, the beautiful wife, the friends and neighbours, the dog - all the supporting cast are still here and woven into the story. Windflower’s Cree heritage once again provides him with insight that eventually helps solve the mystery.

The end promises the next story …….please!

Once again, the narration by Francis G. Kearney, who has narrated the entire series so far, drops the listener into the Grand Bank community with his amazing capture of the Newfoundland dialect. The listener doesn’t hear a narrator so much as a local telling the story of his neighbours and is immediately immersed into this community with everyone else. His narration is captivating and makes the story a delightful listen.

I recommend A Tangled Web by Mike Martin for anyone wanting to hear a world filled with unique characters, a pleasant story and enough mystery to make everything interesting.

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