Kathy Brandt’s latest diving detective adventure, Dangerous Depths, is a fast paced thriller that’s well written, exciting, and, best of all, involves a whole bunch of diving. The story explodes onto the opening page (quite literally) and by the end of the first chapter, Brandt’s heroine is breathless and the reader is hooked.

Since I joined this magazine, we seem to have given a lot of ink over to sharks. This has been (editorial calendar notwithstanding) a relatively spontaneous thing, but it has not gone unnoticed by the editorial staff here - or at least not by me. Inasmuch as I do have some influence on what goes into these pages, I made a mental note to “tone down the shark stuff” where possible, so it was with some hesitation that I picked up the Princeton Field Guides’ publication Sharks of the World when it landed on my desk for review.