The Raven by Peter Landesman

Move over Peter Heg and David Guterson! From a multi-talented new writer comes a remarkably potent, haunting and totally compelling debut novel a beguiling literary, sea mystery.On 29 June, 1941, thirty-six members of a small community near Boston go out on a picnic off Bailey Island on the pleasure craft, the Raven. Mysteriously, only the women and one man, the captain, naked and tied to a keg, come back dead, found by a lone lobsterman and his nine-year-old son. Then nothing no other bodies and no trace of the vessel are ever discovered. Conflicting details about the boats disappearance abound. Was there fog, or was the weather clear Was it sunk by the Germans, or scuttled for insurance money Was a bad sea at fault, or a bad captain