![]() ![]() Skalka will be at Mystery to Me bookstore on July 28, in conversation with Doug Moe, to discuss the final installment in the series, Death Casts a Shadow. ![]() Seven of them, in fact, all subtitled “A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery.” UW Press has published all seven books, which feature gorgeous noirish covers created by Madison artist Sara DeHaan.ĭeath Stalks Door County, in which a half-dozen deaths mar the summer tourism season, was followed by Death at Gills Rock (2015), Death in Cold Water (2016), Death Rides the Ferry (2018), Death By the Bay (2019) and Death Washes Ashore (2021). This is the perfect place to set a mystery.’” I started to think of the contrast between day and night. It was one of those nights that was black, like sitting in the middle of an inkwell. And then I was in that same spot that evening. “I was there on vacation, sitting on the beach on the Lake Michigan side and not thinking about much of anything except how stunningly beautiful and calm it was. “I always knew I wanted to write a mystery that was one of my lifetime goals,” says Skalka, a former Reader’s Digest writer who now divides her time between Milwaukee and Door County. Patricia Skalka remembers the moment the idea for her first Dave Cubiak mystery came to her - years before the publication of her first book, Death Stalks Door County, in 2014. ![]() Patricia Skalka, left, and the final installment of her Dave Cubiak Door County mysteries. ![]()
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