The boy had vanished. The lush Boston suburb didn’t offer a clue, but
14-year-old Stephen Kinnington’s old-money family did. When John Cuddy
investigated he found skeletons in every closet: a mother’s suicide that might
not have been suicide, a father’s cover-up, an uncle decorated for Vietnam war
heroics he never performed, a bodyguard with an ugly past.
Just out of a job as an insurance investigator, still getting over his
wife’s death, John Cuddy is striking out on his own when he starts looking into
Stephen’s disappearance. Forcing his way through a wall of well-bought silence,
Cuddy follows a twisting trail to places he doesn’t want to be, with a woman he
doesn’t want to hurt, into a drowning pool of madness, deceit, and murder.
"Spenser, move over!...I found myself reading slowly, unable to put
the book down, yet reluctant to get to the end."
—CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Jeremiah Healy’s original characters and clever plotting bring a
new realism to the field."
Description:
The boy had vanished. The lush Boston suburb didn’t offer a clue, but 14-year-old Stephen Kinnington’s old-money family did. When John Cuddy investigated he found skeletons in every closet: a mother’s suicide that might not have been suicide, a father’s cover-up, an uncle decorated for Vietnam war heroics he never performed, a bodyguard with an ugly past.
Just out of a job as an insurance investigator, still getting over his wife’s death, John Cuddy is striking out on his own when he starts looking into Stephen’s disappearance. Forcing his way through a wall of well-bought silence, Cuddy follows a twisting trail to places he doesn’t want to be, with a woman he doesn’t want to hurt, into a drowning pool of madness, deceit, and murder.
"Spenser, move over!...I found myself reading slowly, unable to put the book down, yet reluctant to get to the end."
—CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Jeremiah Healy’s original characters and clever plotting bring a new realism to the field."
-GREGORY MCDONALD, author of Welch
ISBN 0-671-73742-2
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
$5.50 U.S.
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