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After spending 40 years working as an aerospace engineer, Dave Saari has turned his attention to writing golf-themed murder mysteries. His newest book Albatross is set largely in the Grand Marais area. It’s a good read, a real page turner with a surprise ending. Staff photo Brian Larsen
Dave Saari’s fifth golf-themed mystery novel is set on the North Shore, taking place mainly in Grand Marais with a bit of back and forth between the Twin Cities and a golf course near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
It’s a page-turner.
The story centers around a mystery involving a potentially murdered young man who years before was living in a trailer in Grand Marais. When the trailer blows up, authorities blame it on a propane leak and the case is closed. The young man, purportedly a drug dealer, was supposedly the son of a rival of Trey’s wealthy father, who asks Trey to go to Grand Marais to get to the bottom of it so he can get leverage on his rival.
A couple in their early thirties, two innocent people are killed when they are ambushed and thrown off the top of Pincushion lookout, a case of mistaken identity? Or a random killing?
Along the way, Trey runs into an old high school flame, Sybil Atwater, now an FBI agent. As young teenagers, the two knew each other through golf and quickly re-connect, working together with Trey’s mother to solve what grows into a much larger mystery as people connected to the case are dying. Interwoven in the pages are themes of love, passion, mystery, drugs, money, family intrigue and more.
As Trey, his mother, and Sybil work to peel away events happening around them, the mystery deepens. Along the way, they discover things about themselves, their relationships- past and present- and their friends.
If you are wondering why Dave named the book after a bird, it turns out that an Albatross is about the most unique shot in golf, rarer than a hole-in-one. It happens on a par five when the golfer hits their second shot into the hole for a minus-3 on the scorecard. Some people refer to this shot as a double-eagle, and the odds of making one are between six million to one and one million to one, while the odds of making a hole-in-one are 12,500 to one. In these pages, Trey makes an Albatross and nearly a second.
While golf may be slow-paced, the action in this book is anything but.
Who is behind all of the chaos? A crony in jail is getting cards in his jail cell telling him he will be killed if he talks. Only prison guards could be placing these cards in his cell. Are prison guards involved?
And why is Sybil sent on a myriad of wild goose chases by her boss?
How deep does this case go? Into the very offices of the FBI?
To find out, you have to buy the book. Go to www.davesaari.com to purchase the electronic or print version of Albatross. Editor’s note: Dave Saari and his wife have a home on Lake Superior near Grand Marais and a condo near Minneapolis. He spent 40-years working as an Aerospace Engineer in Minneapolis/St. Paul. He has one “real” character in this latest book. It’s his golf partner and Cook County News-Herald columnist Stephen Aldrich.
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