Something In The Water

Set during World War II on an island off the coast of Maine, Something in the Water tells the story of a lobster fisherman, Amos Coombs, who knows that German U-boats are hiding out along the coast by day and sinking American merchant vessels at night. Until one terrifying day, however, he is unaware that the enemy is quite literally in his backyard or that the presence of a Nazi submarine is about to change his life and those of his fellow islanders forever.

More than just a war novel, this excitingly original novel presents a vivid portrayal of a community and a way of life. In the first book in the Maine Island in Wartime trilogy, Peter Scott gives us a beautiful picture of Down East Maine life in the 1940s and the people who lived there. He experience in that place and in war come out in his detailed descriptions and perfectly real dialogue.