Dead in the Water

Meet Trisha Carson -- No money. No man. No mojo.Trisha is sitting in the hot summer sun at the edge of a cool Sierra lake. She thinks she is a witness to an accidental drowning at an open water swim race. What else can it be? An elite athlete doesn’t sprint away from the pack, stop, never to move again. But then, a week later, another swimmer known more for her beauty than athletic ability drives her car off a 20-foot cliff into the Pacific Ocean. Only Trisha believes the accidents aren’t so accidental. Naively she asks too many questions to precisely the wrong people. Her suspicions are dismissed by friends and family. But her inquiries continue and lead to an expanding web of intrigue, revenge and danger.

If you want to find Glenda Carroll, she’ll be in, on, or under water-and writing about it. She understands water sports on a very personal level since she swims, surfs and sails. Glenda wrote a weekly sailing column for the Marin Independent Journal for 19 years. She was also published in local, national and international sailing publications. She branched into travel writing and her features have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travel & Leisure, Ford Times, Chevron USA, Defenders of Wildlife, and Bay & Delta Yachtsman. PacificWaverider.com, a surfing website, asked her to write a twice-weekly column, which she did for more than three years. Her debut mystery, DEAD IN THE WATER is based on personal experience in open water swimming. She’s raced in more than 150 open water events in Northern California, as well as Hawaii and Perth, Australia. For five years, she was the Open Water Chair for Pacific Masters Swimming and was the point person for more than 25 open water swims each season ranging in length from 500 yards to 5K/10K. Glenda is a member of the US Masters Swimming Open Water Committee. She is listed in Openwaterpedia.com. Currently, she works for the San Francisco Giants in Guest Services, a baseball junkies dream job. She is a member of Sisters in Crime.