Sea Child is a cleverly constructed, well-written mystery centered on the efforts of Detective Gordie MacLean of Cape Breton Police Service (CBPS) and his partner Roxanne Albright to resolve the case of the death of a local lobster fisherman, whose body was found aboard his boat in waters far removed from where he was sanctioned to do his fishing. What seemed at first glance to be an accidental death turns out to be murder, which leads both detectives down dark, murky paths on a case that proves to be rich in complexity and fraught with peril.