Good plot - action and romance ( )

In it, a close knit community of lighthouse workers try to figure out what went wrong in a rescue mission of a stranded boat during a storm. The captain of the on duty crew's hesitation lost precious time and now the others need to figure out why he hesitated and if it was for criminal reasons.

Lincoln's books always take me a while to get into them, usually the first eighty to a hundred pages. I'm now just past the halfway point and the plot has really picked up. I'll probably be finished with the book by the weekend. ( )

Joseph Lincoln wrote nice, old-fashioned romances set on Cape Cod. There were lots of retired sea captains and eccentric old maids, and handsome heroes and sweet, beautiful young heroines. I love Lincoln's books; they are pleasant and easy to read. Rugged Water, copyright 1924, sticks in my mind as something more, because our hero works in an old-fashioned Life Saving Station. No motorboats - when they spot that a ship is sinking, they row out to it (even at the height of a storm) to save the lives of those on board. It boggles my cowardly mind. I don't remember much about the romance that provides the plot for this book, but I don't need to. On my refrigerator I have a magnet made from an old postcard, showing a rowboat with "U.S. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE" painted on it, sitting on its big-wheeled cart, telling me that Joseph Lincoln was not making this up out of whole cloth.