Hetta Coffey is a woman with a yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it!
As a self-employed engineering consultant with a penchant of oddball (read: shady) projects, she has a way of attracting trouble.
With her floating home drydocked for repairs in Mexico, Hetta needs a place to live and a job to pay for boat repairs. Landing a project at a mining operation not far from her boat, Hetta finds … finds herself on the tumultuous Arizona/Mexico border, where all hell is breaking loose even before she gets there.
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Another entertaining Hetta Coffey book. In this episode, Hetta finds herself in hot water – again! After putting her boat in dry dock for repairs, she is offered a job as a consultant at a mine. For once, she figures what can go wrong with this? When the miners strike and she has to move across the border in Arizona, things start going wrong. Two suspicious neighbors and a white truck that seem to find her where ever she goes are only the start of her problems. Another never ending series of mishaps for Hetta and her friends leading to a huge human trafficing ring and drug smugglers.
I am a total fan of all of Jinx Schwartz’s books, including this one. I especially enjoy the knowledge of boating and land she writes about. Can’t get enough of her work.
I love Jinx Schwartz! Hetta Coffey is a smart, sassy redhead Texan who lives on her yacht in Baja California with her yellow lab Po Thang. Her yacht is the Raymond Johnson, after her last well loved Labrador. Best friend Jan is also in baja with her whale studying hubby. Hetta, Jan and Po Thang are in and out of scrapes all across Mexico. Funny, heartwarming. I want to be Hetta.
I received a copy of this excellent tale from TheFussyLibrarian. The fourth of the Hetta Coffey Mystery Series, this is Jinx Schwartz in her prime. Taking place in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico, and points further north, Hetta’s boat mechanic tells her she has ‘bleesters on her bottom’. She has to have the boat hauled, sanded, repaired, re-painted, and re-shellacked to kill the entity causing the blisters and damage to her hull. This is a process requiring a LOT of time and effort, and the only way to preserve the hull of the ‘Raymond Johnson’, not just a boat but her home, office, and world-traveling security.
Hetta is an engineer and works all over, taking jobs in the U.S., Mexico, and South America that are accessible to yacht basins on the Pacific coast. She is overly fond of the Sea of Cortez, that sea behind the Baja peninsula located just over the border between California and Mexico, and separating the Mexican mainland from said Baja peninsula. Hetta has been working in that area for quite some time.
There is a job coming up in San Francisco and she wants to touch base soon with her fella, but she takes a quick job at a Mexican Copper mine, and rents a VW Fox and a fairly large house near the Turquoise Valley Golf Course in Naco, Arizona thirty miles north of the mine, with the thought that it will keep her busy till her boat is ready. And her first guest on the edge of the golf course is a blue-eyed coyote who does tricks for treats. Her second visitor is obviously connected to the cartel and/or the motorcycle gang she testified against. But she can handle it. Can’t she?
Loved following Hetta Coffey’s adventures!
Come along with Hetta Coffey as she dry docks
the Raymond Johnson for maintenance work.
Hetta lands a job in Mexico as a copper mine
consultant to offset the repairs. The mine in
near the Mexican border so she rent a house
in Bisbee, Arizona.
Of course, Hetta finds herself naively involved
in some heavy duty shenanigans….drug cartels,
human coyotes taking people across the border,
terrorist, mine strike, violence, a winery visit plus
a slew of uninvited guest and a blue eyed semi
feral coyote.
Well created characters in a fast paced, well
plotted read.
This is book # 4 in the Hetta Coffey Mystery
series. It can be read as a stand alone. The
author provides enough back story into the
present so the story flows effortlessly.
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