[Jenny McNair 04] • Saving Sharkey

Book #4 of the Jenny McNair series, "Saving Sharkey" is narrated from the point of view of Malcolm MacGregor who is a good friend and former professor of Jenny McNair's. Having loved her throughout her twenty-year marriage which has recently ended, he is now ready to divulge his true feelings to her. It is challenging enough that he is rather slow at making advances, but now he is distracted by a case with which he is assisting Jenny's father, PI Charlie McNair. Or perhaps it is his blossoming relationship with Jenny that distracts him from saving the very wealthy and charming, Edward Sharkey.

Malcolm and Charlie make a fast friend in Irishman Edward Sharkey when they discover that they have soccer, rugby, Scotland, and their appreciation of good literature and excellent Scotch whisky in common. Upon their first visit to the unique home that Sharkey designed and engineered, overlooking Puget Sound, they meet his tough but vulnerable daughter Maureen, timid and beautiful housekeeper Sarai, lusty, outspoken and very young Irish girlfriend Aileen, and angry ex-wife Moira. It takes only moments for them to realize that their new friend is going to need saving from the women in his life, if nothing else. But when the adventurous and wealthy Sharkey disappears, they realize that their friend really does need saving, in the true sense of the word.

Although written from the point of view of Malcolm MacGregor, Saving Sharkey continues the Jenny McNair series and overlaps with "Three Dog Island," the third book in the series.