Hurricanes and Blaises: Meet Nancy Mayo

by Mark Aitchison

Overview

When Buddy Holly died in a tragic plane crash in 1959 it sent shock waves around the country. The restless innocence of an entire generation, just finding and beginning to spread their wings, was threatened. On sleepy old Cape Cod Nancy Mayo is an attractive and popular middle school student who only wishes to do well at school and please her parents. Then Bernadette Blaise and her parents come to visit. Bernadette’s father is a French World War Two veteran who met Nancy’s father, Police Chief Joe Mayo, in Paris on Liberation Day. Nancy doesn’t know what to make of Bernadette’s rebellious nature though she promises to do her best to take care of the visiting exchange student. In the meantime her father is involved in a mysterious murder investigation- someone is killing seals on Nauset Beach- and Joe Mayo hopes to heck none of the local fishermen are involved. Overshadowing all this a hurricane of unknown proportions is fast approaching the idyllic seaside town and her anxious inhabitants. Tapping into unknown qualities of courage and intelligence Nancy Mayo finds herself joining forces with her French classmate to help solve her father’s case before disaster strikes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044253377
Publisher:	Mark Aitchison
Publication date:	12/19/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	179 KB

About the Author

I was born in England (London) to Scottish parents and lived in Nigeria during my earliest years before moving to Canada (Toronto) where I grew up and went to prep school (Upper Canada College, class of 1981). At Bennington College (Vermont, USA, class of 1985) I studied latin american literature and fine arts (painting). After college my family moved to Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA)- where we had a summer house for many years- and opened a country inn in Eastham (outer cape) called The Over Look Inn. There I began writing seriously for publication (fiction mostly) and travelling every winter to South America. In 1992 I met my wife-to-be, Tania, in Brazil (Manaus). We were married in June of 1992 and started an adventure travel company called Swallows and Amazons that same year. I continue to live in Manaus today with my family (Tania and our 2 daughters Kelly and Stephanie) where I still run Swallows and Amazons Tours, write fiction (mostly adventure stories) and non-fiction (mostly about conservation), and make plans for the future.